Quotes About Progress

Compromising with events time moves along.

There was a hint in the air that the earth was hurrying on toward other weather; the lush midsummer moment outside of time was already over.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...

Now you've a clean start... you've brushed three or four ornaments down, and in a fit of pique knocked off the rest of them. The thing now is to collect some new ones, and the farther you look ahead in the collecting, the better, but remember, do the next thing.

Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

You can't repeat the past.

to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning-

I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition….

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances... Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of circumstances.

Life is a series of successful gestures...

Y así vamos adelante, botes que reman contra la corriente, incesantemente arrastrados hacia el pasado.

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.

Ne gariptir, ac?dan kaç?nmaya çal???rken, bazen bizi o noktaya getiren ayak izlerinin bir bir üzerinden geçmek gerekebilir.

that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. Then

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacing back and forth, its disastrous retreats!

His day, usually a jellylike creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, towards a climax, as a play should, as a day should.

Amory became thirteen, rather tall and slender, and more than ever on to his Celtic mother. He had tutored occasionally—the idea being that he was to keep up, at each place taking up the work where he left off, yet as no tutor ever found the place he left off, his mind was still in very good shape.

Te mondod folyton, hogy az embernek egyre több dolgot kell megismernie, és ha ezt abbahagyja, olyan lesz, mint a többi ember, és hogy addig kell elérnie valamit, míg ezt a folytonos megismerést abba nem hagyja.

There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe--why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Bizler ak?nt?ya kar?? gemilerimizi ilerletmeye çal???rken, hiç durmadan geçmiÅŸe çekiliyorduk asl?nda.

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.

Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.