Series Quotes

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. (Georges Clemenceau)
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. View quote
Learned Hand
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. View quote
Margaret Mead
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
...in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. View quote
Steve Reich
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way. View quote
MS Dhoni
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change. View quote
Jane Goodall
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the World Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun. View quote
Derek Jeter
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? View quote
Andy Warhol
Sometimes,” he said, "I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities. (Jack McDevitt)
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. View quote
Laozi
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. View quote
Bernie Siegel