Succession Quotes

227 quotes by 202 authors

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. — Jane Austen
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and… — Honore de Balzac
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character… — Bernard Baruch
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. — Edmund Beecher Wilson
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have… — Louis Agassiz
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In… — Ernst Haeckel
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,… — William James
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes. — Roger Caras
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense,… — Baron d'Holbach
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order… — Billie Holiday
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages… — Wilhelm Wundt
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little… — Walter Bagehot
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of… — Rudolf Arnheim
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions… — Alexander Hamilton

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