Successive Quotes

119 quotes by 105 authors

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would… — Dee Dee Myers
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on… — Anais Nin
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise,… — Pablo Picasso
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to… — Jonathan Sacks
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the… — H.G. Wells
The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for… — Ricky Williams
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress. — Ashwin Sanghi
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its… — Albert Camus
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as… — Aldo Leopold
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that,… — Ann Druyan
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would… — Charles Darwin
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a… — Angela Carter
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is… — Lionel Shriver
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity… — Marcel Proust
High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A… — Aldo Leopold
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting… — Mark Twain
Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps.… — Joseph Butler
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its… — James Clerk Maxwell
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn
There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come back… — Miguel Syjuco

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