Preceding Quotes

78 quotes by 73 authors

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more… — Michael Mandelbaum
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. — Placido Domingo
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are… — Piers Anthony
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more… — Sylvia Earle
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce. — Justus von Liebig
I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the… — David Plotz
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What… — Ludwig von Mises
In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had… — John Quincy Adams
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave… — Andre Gide
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,… — Sylvia Earle
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've… — Ronald Reagan
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of… — Lewis Thomas
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions… — Marilynne Robinson
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both… — Madeleine L'Engle
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. — Carlos Fuentes
I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass… — Sarah Dessen
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those… — Will Self
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But… — Alan Moore

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