Best Succession Lines
227 Succession quotes by 196 unique authors
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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
— Paul Gauguin
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We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it…
— Thomas Sowell
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True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.
— Edwin Land
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I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
— Richard Schmid
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What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of…
— Max Planck
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Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know…
— Frederick Lenz
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... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races.…
— Mike Harding
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.
— Ari Kiev
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it…
— Charles Dickens
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
— Ernest Dimnet
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It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
— Robert Duvall
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We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one…
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be…
— Garrett Hardin
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I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the…
— Hugh Hefner
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
— Aldous Huxley
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
— Helen Keller
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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
— Corita Kent
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The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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