Quotes About Preceding

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

The past is the father of the present," said Poirot sententiously. He

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

The God concept, of course, originated from mankind's innate knowledge that consciousness precedes physical construction.

And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to people. Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!

The sensing and responding level of perception precedes minds, historically speaking, and is also present in minded organisms now.

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

Past subjunctive forms are used when reporting: May/might as well can be translated using the verb poder. When the speaker expresses advice in a mild way (that is, the advice is not emphasized or insisted on), por las mismas can be added (usually preceding the verb poder):

The last-antecedent canon may be superseded by another grammatical convention: A pronoun that is the subject of a sentence and does not have an antecedent in that sentence ordinarily refers to the subject of the preceding sentence. And it almost always does so when it is the word that begins the sentence.

Not lost, but gone before.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

no event is allowed into it that does not have a precedent in human history.

La máxima desviación de una operación precedente pasara a ser el punto inicial de la operación siguiente.

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow.

Determining the selected item The preceding

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

It know we have a fashion of saying such and such an event was the turning-point in my life, but we shouldn't say it. We should merely grant that its place as LAST link in the chain makes it the most CONSPICUOUS link; in real importance it has no advantage over any one of its predecessors.

The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time - of one thing preceding another - the effort to establish causality is a mug's game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.

Everything must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

La civilisation musulmane, comme l'occidentale, est une civilisation dérivée, du second degré, pour reprendre la terminologie d'Alfred Weber. Elle ne s'est pas édifiée à partir d'une table rase, mais sur le tuf de cette civilisation bigarrée et très vivante qui l'a précédée dans le Proche-Orient.