Quotes About Succession

I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister.

How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

Regarding themselves as irreplaceable, both Lenin and Stalin tried in different ways to destroy their successors - Lenin through a testament that attacked Stalin and Trotsky, Stalin through purges culminating in the Doctors' Plot of 1953.

At that moment, in spite of the dizziness, I felt like Nietzsche when he had his Eternal Return epiphany. An inexorable succession of nanoseconds, each one blessed by eternity.

Luego todo se convirtió en una sucesión de hechos concretos o de nombres proprios o de verbos, o de capítulos de un manual de anatomía deshojado como una flor, interrelacionados caóticamente entre sí.

Then everything turned into a succession of concrete acts and proper nouns and verbs, or pages from an anatomy manual scattered like flower petals, chaotically linked.

We Irish were alone, of all countries, in this way of choosing our leaders. Everywhere else in the world 'tis a firstborn son who's heir to the title—in England, your primogeniture—and no questions asked. But tanaistry was how the Irish chiefs were made, and it had always served us well. Aside

The process of ecological succession is like a positive feedback loop, a magnet of life attracting more life.

each one uglier than the next.

Yes. Now, you had that doctorate in Barrayaran history. Do any really interesting District succession squabbles spring to your memory?" "Lord Midnight the horse," Galeni replied at once. "Who always voted 'neigh.' 

Los capitanes vienen y van, pero las administraciones viven eternamente

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself

For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the carg0.

we are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young.

In America] wealth circulates inconceivable rapidity, and experience shows that it is rare to find two succeeding generations in the full enjoyment of it.

A well-governed state is as fruitful to all good purposes, as the seven-headed serpent is said to have been in evil; when one head is cut off, many rise up in the place of it. Good order being once established, makes good men...

The King is dead. Long live the King! We must all offer allegiance to our new sovereign lord, King Edward the Fifth.

All he had wanted, for most of his long reign, was a son to succeed him. For that he had married six times. Would he be proud to see her now, seated in this chair of estate he had once occupied? She hoped so. She

Thanks to the Wars of the Roses, by the end of the period covered by this book a king's title to the throne had come not to matter as much as his ability to hold on to that throne and to govern effectively.