Quotes About Sequence

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.

each one uglier than the next.

The suits are usually ordered Wands, Cups, Swords, and Disks.

when there's no plot line there are no digressions.

In the light of this clarification of the finite/infinite distinction, we can see that 'revelatory' action, including whatever events allow us a closer conscious share in infinite agency (in the love of the Trinity, to use the conventional theological phrasing), will be, not an interruption of the finite sequence, but a particular configuration of finite agency such that it communicates more than its own immanent content.

Violent action is unclear to most of those who get caught up in it. Experience is fragmentary; cause and effect,why and how, are torn apart. Only sequence exists. First this then that. And afterward, for those who survived, a lifetime of trying to understand

Give me full details, if you please, and above all begin at the beginning. I like order in all things.

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.

Whenever you hold a three-card sequence or longer at the head of your suit you always lead the top card of the sequence. The top of a sequence rule takes precedence over the fourth-highest rule.

TIP: When holding two long suits, one of which contains a sequence, you should lead the suit with the sequence.

Ninguno de mis días estaba escrito en el día anterior, pero lo que me impacta es que, una vez vivido, cada día antecede y explica y establece y justifica y condiciona lo que sucederá después, con los días venideros

Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "Does not!"

Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Ten little Indians standing in a line—One went home, and then there were nine.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitrary.