#succession

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. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#body #comes #elect #exactly #king

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life #quick #seems #succession

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

— Vicente Aleixandre

#poet #poetry #poses #questions #succession

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lessons #life is a #lived #must #succession

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#becoming #christian #done #faith #gladly

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

#beginning #fleeting #learn #live #might

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. ↗

— Gerald Vann

#distorting #history #long #long succession #say

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

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

#be happy #brilliant #climax #decisions #grim

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order. ↗

— Carl Hubbell

#gehrig #order #out #ruth #striking