A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession. — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability,… — Robin Skynner 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
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does… — Camille Saint-Saens Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching. — Anonymous 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
An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Purposeful organizations develop the next generation, not simply the next leader. My friend Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author and leading executive coach, does… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after… — Rati Tsiteladze Copy Share Image
That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were… — Marcus Aurelius 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
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. — Edmund Beecher Wilson Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
