Receded Quotes

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new. - Jackson Browne

Yen buying seems to be stalling after an initial round of optimism about the Sept. 11 election receded. - Tomoko Fujii

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good. - Keenen Ivory Wayans

We will reject the so-called 'smart sanctions' that are more stupid than what preceded them. - Saddam Hussein

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. - H. P. Blavatsky

We need to make sure that we are not arranged for a major tank war in Europe, or a strategic nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union because both of those threats have receded. Instead we need to recognize the kinds of instabilities that we have seen over the past decade, the kinds of challenges and emerging threats that exist. - Donald Rumsfeld

We are starting with stocks fully valued and short- and long-term interest rates still hovering near four-decade lows. Large bull-market moves are generally accompanied by, or preceded by, declining rates, and we don't have that scenario today. - James Stack

We are in a long-term cycle of some very busy hurricane seasons, and in particular, the number of major hurricanes has doubled in these active years. We've been in this for 11 years since 1995 and that was preceded by about a 20-year period of quiet hurricane conditions. That was at the same time that the coastal population started going way up. - Dr. Chris Landsea

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. - Joseph Addison

This place has been a mess for a long time, but a different kind of mess. The war was messy, the decade that preceded the war was messy, the history back to 1912 was messy ... and the task is immense. - Richard Holbrooke