Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.
I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company. . . The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.
I have. . . submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat. , Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur. ]
Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,. . . The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.
If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.
One day you're in. The next day you're out.
My next baby will be my new record.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.
People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.