Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My predecessors in this business of acting were fully convinced their work would never be recorded, except in the form of reviews… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten… — Theodore William Richards Copy Share Image
If I were a Catholic, I'd be asking what's going on here. I really would. "The pope also broke with his predecessors… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by… — Ernest Starling Copy Share Image
I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Copy Share Image
Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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