God had infinite time to give us… He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and… — George Perkins Marsh 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
I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to… — Ekoplekz Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington 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
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility… — Alanna Knight 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
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
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
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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