In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths…

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of…

— Bertrand Russell

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier…

— Kathleen Kenyon

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

— Giles Foden

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.

— Stephen Kinzer

There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come…

— Miguel Syjuco

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive…

— Alice Morse Earle

Thierry Mugler is about the power of glamour and walking straight into the future. He's been a god for successive generations in the fashion…

— Nicola Formichetti

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of…

— Orson F. Whitney

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons; but a soul that is lost through death…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous…

— Jon Landau

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's…

— Kenneth Fisher

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please…

— Mario Monti

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the…

— Elie Ducommun