Quotes About Succession

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.

Basketball, eventually I'm going to have to retire one day. Players are going to come in and take my job. But education, I'll always have my education.

After 1984, no ruling party in the State has won to form the government the second time.

We've never had somebody to secure the legacy for the 155-pound division.

I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

At last, his companions approached his bedside and implored him to name his successor: To whom do you leave your kingdom? They leaned close to hear his words. With great effort Alexander answered in a whisper: To the strongest. With that, the king of the world closed his eyes and breathed his last.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes - told by a succession of authors.

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.

Things always happen in series.

I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

The Beatles will exist without us.

In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.

No incumbent vice president had been elected to succeed an incumbent president since Martin Van Buren won in 1836.

Cuando esté muerto, copiarás a otro y luego a otro

El presente está solo. La memoria Erige el tiempo. Sucesión y engaño Es la rutina del reloj. El año No es menos vano que la vana historia. (The present is singular. It is memory that sets up time. Both succession and error come with the routine of the clock. A year is no less vanity than is history.)

No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.

As Membij took the place of Carchemish, so Emesa or Homs took the place of Kadesh.

Where on earth do you get a rose in Elsinore in the middle of winter?" "Don't you want it?" She took the flower from him, kissed his cheek. No bristles. No beard. A clean-shaven man with a kind and amiable face. Scheming. She didn't doubt it. But he was a diplomat by training. It was only to be expected. And if he'd lacked those skills perhaps neither of them would have managed Old Hamlet's death, the marriage, the succession so easily.

Y a trois sortes de tyrans : les uns ont le royaume par élection du peuple, les autres par la force des armes, les autres par succession de leur race.

And it conferred power. The presentee was placed under an obligation to the presenter, and once she had been presented she magically metamorphosed into a presenter herself, able to pass on the gift to others in some curious apostolic succession.