No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of…

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from…

— William Faulkner

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon…

— Henry L. Stimson

But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference…

— Robert Benchley

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered…

— Max Brooks

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

— J. G. Holland

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for…

— Bernard Baruch

Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one…

— Francis Bowen

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need…

— Noel Tichy

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

— Joseph Sobran

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies…

— Ehren Kruger

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

— Sara Sheridan