#recede

Strong convictions precede great actions. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#actions #convictions #great #precede #strong

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#current #era #helping #historical #history

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me. ↗

— Elisabeth Rohm

#being #being different #betting #chance #different

I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#anything #colleagues #dangerous #dangerous drug #encourage

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#fair #her #lily #precedence #rose

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#faith #follow #intelligence #must #never

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#another #draws #honestly #i #life

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#america #bill #control #facing #farm

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

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #like #ones #precedes #proportion