Quotes About Succession

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Incited by the intellectual recompense of such a pursuit, Mrs. Radcliffe gave her romances in quick succession to the world: — her first work, "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne," was published in the year 1789; the "Sicilian Romance," in 1790; the "Romance of the Forest," in 1791; "The Mysteries of Udolpho," in 1794; and " The Italian," in 1797.

Henry III (1207–1272) was the son and successor of King John, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death.

If you're fighting and are killed, another takes up the banner and he fights and is killed too, and the next one takes up the flag and dies too. That's the natural sequence of events, for you don't get anything for nothing. But what if there's no one there who wants to take up the flag because no one knows its meaning?

When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

I think all of our records are a progression of some sort.

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

It takes time, but I have a promising team of younger Ministers, and I am quite sure from amongst them, one leader will emerge.

There could be no eldest son for her, and younger sons were indelicate things, necessary, but not to be much spoken of. Younger sons had none of the privileges of obscurity; it was their plain duty to remain hidden until some disaster perchance promoted them to their brother's places, and, since this was their function, it was desirable that they should keep themselves wholly suitable for succession.

For all things change, making way for each other

I want Edelman to remain a family business.

If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.

Everton have had great centre-forwards in the past - they are big boots to fill.

Israel Adesanya will not be Eugene Bareman's final UFC champion.

You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.

I took over from Sir Alex, and it was always going to take time, whoever was in charge.

I wholeheartedly believe that Andy Biggs is the right man to take up the legacy that Matt Salmon is leaving behind. I have worked with Andy for a number of years, and I have been impressed by his commitment to the Constitution and the principles of conservatism.

I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'

Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.

Why is Poroshenko going for a second term? So that he doesn't get a first.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

On the 26th of December of last year, I took office for my second term as prime minister. And it is the first time ever since then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, during the occupation period, that a prime minister is taking this position for the second time with a number of years in between.

I don't like the term 'dynasty.'

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.