Quotes About Progression

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.

For each natural number N, will the guest in room number N please move immediately to room number N (N +1)/2.' Then they announce, 'For all natural numbers N and M, will the Nth passenger from the Mth train please go to room number [(N + M)2 + N – M/2.

Au début d'une relation, on pourrait presque analyser chaque baiser. Tout se détache parfaitement dans une mémoire qui lentement progresse dans la confusion de la répétition.

Allmovements are accomplished in six stages, and the seventh brings return.... Seven is the number of young light. and it arises whensix, the number of the great darkness, is increased by one. THE I CHING1

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

The Child grew, and with growth there came to Him expansion of mind, development of faculties, and progression in power and understanding. (Jesus the Christ, 111)

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.