I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. — Alexei Navalny 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
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also… — Tony Hoare 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
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
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability… — Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares,… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
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
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner 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
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. — Haile Selassie 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
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