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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

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. — Honore De Balzac

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession. — Lactantius

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

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

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession. — Lauren Willig

Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores. — Naomi Stadlen

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

As long as your life is a succession of love stories, you can never grow old. — James Marquess

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

My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from. — Roy Sekoff

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon

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

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it. — Hugh Hefner

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw

Love is a succession of the smallest things that add up to be everything — P.J. Bayliss

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ... — Han Suyin

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. — Theodor Adorno

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will

I've seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs. — Christy Leigh Stewart

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments. — Douglas Coupland

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. — William Shakespeare

Having the certitude of a succession of days ... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. — Paul Gauguin

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

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory. — Archibald Marwizi

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz

This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars Von Trier

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

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

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. — Aldous Huxley

Great things do not just happen by impulse,
but as a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance? — Terence McKenna

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Planck

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it? — Jeanne M. Dams

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 aspiration
Our 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

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys

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

When a family is unified, it doesn't matter what business they're in. They can successfully transition from one generation to the next. — Andrew Keyt

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. — Aaron Hill

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. — Corita Kent

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

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order. — Carl Hubbell

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

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson

Life is a succession of readjustments. — Elizabeth Bowen

Students present themselves ... like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike

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

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. — Charlotte M. Mason