We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only…

“I don't know how much we will rise," I say stoutly. "And I have no fear of falling. He looks at me. "You are…

— Philippa Gregory

There is no fast track to success. You have to get there in slow, successive steps.

— Melchor Lim

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

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

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