The usual practice is that the people in their jobs keep their jobs until their successors are named. Now, that's the way… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The story, it's really important to The Ancient One that Doctor Strange does cut it because The Ancient One needs a successor,… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that… — Pope Boniface VIII Copy Share Image
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed… — Terry Tamminen Copy Share Image
Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their… — Walther Rathenau Copy Share Image
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one. — Paul Lieberstein Copy Share Image
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
![“The usual practice is that the people in their jobs keep their jobs until their successors are named. Now, that's the way the [George] Bush administration treated the [Bill] Clinton people. And that's the way the [Barack] Obama administration treated the [George W.] Bush people.” quote by Daniel Fried](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d3/daniel-fried-8925_administration_the-usual-practice-is-that-the-people-in_1875500.jpg)
![“We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7d2/hillary-clinton-51_barack_we-did-drive-them-iran-to-the-negotiatin_1150953.jpg)
![“To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so…” quote by Leo Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3dd/leo-strauss-12446_adopted_to-avert-the-danger-posed-by-theory-to-l_1610746.jpg)
![“[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.” quote by Claude Debussy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d78/claude-debussy-11298_beautiful_on-richard-wagner-a-beautiful-sunset-tha_2833698.jpg)
![“Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.” quote by Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b11/bob-hawke-7891_aids_don-t-talk-to-me-about-what-s-happened-s_2897994.jpg)
![“I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East]. He has a home in Silicon Valley, and he said it's just a few minutes' drive away from mine.” quote by Masayoshi Son](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5d2/masayoshi-son-4119_born_i-d-met-simon-segars-for-the-first-time_2445949.jpg)
![“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38e/steve-jobs-307_apples_i-mean-some-people-say-oh-god-if-jobs-go_2546301.jpg)
