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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
— Vicente Aleixandre
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
— Gustave Flaubert
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
— Alfred Jarry
Our history is a material history, not just a succession of thoughts or speech acts.
— Andrew Shryock
Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.
— Edward Johnson, III
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?
— Peter Watts
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.
— John C. Maxwell
Nothing succeeds like succession.
— Andrew Garve
But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.
— Wendell Berry
You need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
— Richard Dawkins
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
— Chester Barnard
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
— Maria Montessori
Time means succession, and succession, change: Hence timelessness is bound to disarrange Schedules of sentiment.
— Vladimir Nabokov
That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
— Saul Alinsky
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
Was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.
— Douglas Adams
Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
— William Hazlitt
In the months that followed he brought a rapid succession of cases to court - as he recalled, smelling somewhat of midnight oil.
— Anthony Everitt
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
— Igor Stravinsky
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
— George Eliot
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
— George Bernard Shaw
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
— Jerry Saltz
People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.
— Steve Hely
I've seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs.
— Christy Leigh Stewart
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
— Samuel Beckett
Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.
— William Shakespeare
I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came.
— L.M. Montgomery
Having the certitude of a succession of days ... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
— Paul Gauguin
A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.
— Archibald Marwizi
This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.
— Frederick Lenz
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
— Theodor Adorno
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
— Jean Vanier
Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
— Sheldon Adelson
The moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare.
— Margaret George
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
— Ernest Dimnet
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
Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.
— Liz Weber
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
— Richard Schmid
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
— Lars Von Trier
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.
— Thornton Wilder
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
— Claude Vorilhon
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
— Jack Kornfield
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
— Pyotr Chaadayev
Sad that our finest aspirationOur freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
— Roman Jakobson
To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy
— Smith Wigglesworth
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.
— Raymond Williams
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
That is the very best time of life, he thought again: when you are very young, when living is a simple, perfect succession of golden days.
— John Edward Williams
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
— Al-Waleed Bin Talal
There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.
— Leanda De Lisle
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
— Mikhail Lermontov
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.
— Roberto Bolano
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
— Aaron Hill
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
— Peter Drucker
History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.
— Breyten Breytenbach
Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.
— Jacqueline Winspear
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
— George Sand
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
— Sara Sheridan
THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia.
— James George Frazer
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
— Voltaire
Life is a succession of readjustments.
— Elizabeth Bowen
The future is an infinite succession of presents
— Howard Zinn
Moltmann indicates, "the Church can only be apostolic when it takes up its cross. Its apostolic succession is the succession of the suffering Christ
— Henry G. Covert
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
— Roger Caras
