Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance? — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from. — Roy Sekoff Copy Share Image
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
