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Letter "P" » predecessor
«The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.»
Author: Emilio Ambasz
| Keywords:
chair, covered, elevates, executive, predecessor, preferably, sitter, sitters, skin, The Skin
«Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?»
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
| Keywords:
carries, consequence, desirable, exceptions, For Better or Worse, fruit, most desirable, predecessor, punishment, seed, The Exceptions, unavoidable, yields
«Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
| Keywords:
discarded, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, mantle, mantled, mantles, predecessor, succeeded, world organization
«I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.»
Author: Martin Van Buren
(President)
| Keywords:
confide, confided, confides, confiding, footsteps, illustrious, predecessor, receiving, tread
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, characterizes, Considering, European, napoleon, obsession, perversion, perversions, predecessor, relay, relayed, relay race, Robespierre, runner, runners, runner up, stadium, stadiums, successor, surpassed, surpasses, The Runner, The Sequence
«The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
circus, elephant, ivory, parade, predecessor, proceeds, The Circus, The Elephant, thick, thick skin
«To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.»
«CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
announced, appeased, appeases, appeasing, appointing, cabbage, cabbages, conspicuously, council, council of, Empire State, gravely, His Majesty, kitchen garden, majesty, miscarry, murmuring, predecessor, The Empire State, vegetable, vegetable garden
«I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
attracted, at length, cherished, poetic, predecessor
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