Consecutive Quotes

• Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

  Craig Reucassel

  Trust, School, Past

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• Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Inspiration, Solitary

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• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  Harry Caray

  Sports, Games, Loser

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• I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

  John Engler

  Country, Gone, Governors

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• But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Inspirational, Life, Two

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• It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

  Jacob Bigelow

  Errors, Order, Causes

  Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.165

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• To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.

  Mark McGwire

  Running, Home, Player

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• I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

  Scott Frank

  Death, Suicide, Numbers

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• Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Nfl, Challenges, Mind

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Self, Effort, Together

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Writing, Long, Novelists

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• This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor.

  Milagros Cabral

  Team, Gold, Flavor

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• Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Drs, Gaps

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

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• At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

  Simon Schama

  School, Records, Ugly

  "Lunch with Mariella: Simon Schama". Interview with Mariella Frostrupv, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse menses was a common disturbance; frequent bleeding between periods was another; in some cases, both problems were present. Thyroid therapy relived the disturbances.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Eight, Pms, Twenties

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• The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

  Alan Greenspan

  Successful, Coins, Tossers

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.465, Penguin

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• I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

  Mose Allison

  Night, Years, Able

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• At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.

  Adam Garcia

  Jobs, Night, Years

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• I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Uplifting, Team, Hero

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Records, Alive

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• The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into unconsciousness at the outset of each encounter and consciously remembered hearing only an initial word or two from the entity, I awakened on the dawn after the second visit with the ideas for The Divine Fire bubbling in my brain.

  Brad Steiger

  Spiritual, Book, Inspiration

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• Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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• Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

  Bill Murray

  Humor, Deep Thought, Dying

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• The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Two, Gmos

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. May 29, 2003.

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