I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as… — Gottfried Leibniz 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
“"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
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of… — John Acton Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP… — John T. Chambers 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
Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal… — David G. Simons Copy Share Image
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Alongside this [apostolic succession], largely hidden, existing on a "charismatic" rather than an official level, there is secondly the apostolic succession of… — Dr. Herman A. Middleton Copy Share Image
In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in… — Susan Hill 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
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we… — Adrienne von Speyr 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
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors,… — Origen Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink… — Nicholas of Flue Copy Share Image