Succession Quotes

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

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

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

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

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

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.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

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

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

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

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.

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.

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

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.

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

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

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

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

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

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

'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.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

life is a succession of readjustments.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.