Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There's got to be a balance of appreciating 'Succession' and appreciating 'King of Queens.' Those worlds have to exist together. Now you… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make… — Michael Urie Copy Share Image
The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take… — Jeremy Taylor 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
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that… — Robert Cormier 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
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and… — Jack Kornfield 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
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western.… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these… — Joseph Sobran 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
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I was argued into the faith, but I feel like the evidence knocked down a succession of objections… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a… — John Irving 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
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
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame.… — Walter Murch 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
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles.… — Bernard Stiegler 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
