Superseding Quotes

#1. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

Tacitus

#2. Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.

George Carlin

#3. The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

John Geddes

#4. I'd have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

Nova Peris

#5. I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

Donna Karan

#6. You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

Tommy Chong

#7. Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

James L. Buckley

#8. The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

John Ruskin

#9. To be honest, I don't have much time to watch any movies.

John Woo

#10. And Burns
though brief the race he ran,
Though rough and dark the paths he trod,
Lived
died
in form and soul a man,
The image of his God.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#11. What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Thomas Sowell

#12. There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

Idries Shah

#13. The amassing of evil brings misery. The accumulation of good brings blessings.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. I think that we're gonna start seeing more and more people who started as a YouTube personality and now have their own studio, and they're gonna start creating things: story-driven stuff, longer-form stuff that people have an opportunity to enjoy.

Rhett McLaughlin

#16. I am not the river I am the net.

Frank Herbert

#17. So, what is it that I bring to her?" [Angus]
"Strength. Security. Stability. All the best 's' words." [Truman]

Truman smirked and so did Angus.

Elizabeth Finn