#succession

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

— Max Planck

#burden #days #happy #happy days #heavy

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#core #departments #experience #get #government

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

— Darrell Royal

#day #days #i #play #space

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#life #life is a #moments #really #rediscover

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

#fears #hour #joys #life #long

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. ↗

— Sheldon Adelson

#i #intention #need #planning #retire

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

— Claude Vorilhon

#ancestors #call #glorious #history #mistakes

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#corresponding #divides #faculty #important #inner

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

— Lactantius

#god #immortal #need #nor #sex