I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch 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
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in… — Leanda de Lisle Copy Share Image
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears,… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there… — Walter Bagehot 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
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas. — Pyotr Chaadayev Copy Share Image
There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in… — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image