Quotes About Progression

People are deceived and drawn on step by step, till war, death and destruction are upon them.

Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

What kind of government is this? It's getting more like California all the time.

Today's problem is replaced by new prob lems in an unending procession. We seem barely to have a chance to catch our breath before new challenges confront us.

Darwin wrote: "organized beings represent a tree.

Does this story have a happy ending?" Bobby asked. "There is no such thing as an ending," she said. "Good things come out of bad things and bad things come out of good things, but it always continues. It's as in life. Books are life. There is just the part you read. They start before that. They finish after it. Everything carries on forever. You are only in it for those pages, for a tiny window of time.

In contrast, when a coronary artery in your heart is only 30–40 percent blocked, it is more unstable because it's not calcified, and it has not had time to grow a protective network of collaterals. This is why these are called "vulnerable plaques"—because they are more likely to rupture and cause a sudden total obstruction, known as "catastrophic progression," which is as bad as it sounds.

Your assignment is a pre-cursor to someone else's assignment. In the same breath, someone else's assignment is a pre-cursor to yours.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

no one is ever the last person anywhere, there is always someone who crosses later on.

?i pe el timpul va sfâr?i prin a-l distruge pentru a-l readuce la via??.

Acestea sunt paradoxurile, salturile ?i evit?rile pe care le aduce scurgerea timpului. Ea ba le accelereaz?, ba le încetine?te.

Guys were first effigies, then urchins. But always male

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

Much of history results from apparently unrelated dominoes tumbling one over another.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." —Charles Reade