Best Succession Quotes
227 Succession quotes by 196 unique authors
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Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by…
— William Buckland
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its…
— Unknown Author
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It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
— Andre Gide
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the…
— Origen
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In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me…
— Saint Augustine
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And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them…
— Adrienne von Speyr
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Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South…
— George Washington
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal.…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the…
— Oscar Wilde
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That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve…
— David Gilmour
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You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry…
— Ian Hislop
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I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The…
— Lydia Lunch
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The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.
— Douglas Adams
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
— Mikhail Lermontov
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My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
— Lars von Trier
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the…
— M. King Hubbert
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse…
— Plato
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My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.
— Roy Sekoff
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