Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings… What is death?... A… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“"Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at… — Archbishop Fulton Sheen Copy Share Image
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes… Each exists, apartand independently, in the bosom… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing… — Anonymous 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
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked… — Wallis Duchess of Windsor Copy Share Image
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in… — Julian Jaynes 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
Although I feel directing is a lot more challenging, fulfilling and satisfying, it is also far more stressful & consuming. This is… — Nandita Das Copy Share Image
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require… — Lactantius 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
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image