Quotes About Progress

Everything is a learning experience.

one always seemed to be getting too old for something.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

I got highways for stretchmarks See where I've grown.

Everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

Winning does not tempt that man. His growth is this: to be defeated by ever greater forces. Book of Images

The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

Time is not a ladder one ascends into the future but a ladder one descends into the past

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

It was my experience that the printing on anything I picked up, from maps to telephone books, had gotten smaller every year.

Change does come.

When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital.

We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.

I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream--now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. In the context of a story, a fairly boring thought in a character's head can work better than a brilliant one, and a brilliantly laid-out structure can be so much worse for a story than one that is more haphazard.

I link all evils to the computer.

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place

Generally making myself indispensable. I was ambitious in those days. It seems ridiculous now.