Quotes of Succession - somelinesforyou

“ Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same. ”

- Bruce Cockburn

“ Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ”

- Joseph Hall

“ There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ”

- J. G. Holland

“ Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. ”

- Vicente Aleixandre

“ During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ 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 of which might say something significant. ”

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

“ The students of the '60s inevitably became the tenured professors that are so heavily with us today, trying to spawn a succession of look-alikes and feel-alikes. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I don't want to just accumulate a succession of impactful images. I'm always interested in storytelling. ”

- Michel Gondry

“ One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. ”

- J. G. Holland

“ The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces — in nature, in society, in man himself. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ Life is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed. ”

- Corita Kent

“ There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. ”

- Claude Vorilhon

“ Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. ”

- J. Donald Walters

“ The same system that produced a bewildering succession of new-model, style-obsolescent autos and refrigerators can also produce an endless outpouring of new-model, style-obsolescent science. ”

- Harvey Wheeler

“ It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven. ”

- Wernher Von Braun

“ Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. ”

- Giovanni Ruffini

“ Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you. ”

- Steve Nash

“ There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ”

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

“ Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings. ”

- Jane Austen

“ A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. ”

- Wallis Simpson

“ Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. ”

- Field Marshall John French

“ During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ 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, new inventions, and new applications. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ”

- Ernest Dimnet
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