Successive Quotes

119 quotes by 105 authors

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand
The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts… — Learned Hand
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene… — Andre Gide
Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting. — Peter R. Orszag
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies:… — Homer
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to… — David Puttnam
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent… — P. Chidambaram
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become… — Michael Shermer
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to… — Peter York
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in… — Samuel Smiles
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. — Steve Jobs
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more… — Octavius Winslow
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of… — Stephen Jay Gould
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would… — Georges Cuvier
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. — George Eliot
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac… — Steve Jobs

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