Quotes About Progress

Let's build a town where

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.… And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -tomorrow we will run faster, stetch out our arms further...And one fine morning-

Assim vamos persistindo, como barcos contra a corrente, incessantemente levados de volta ao passado.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further...And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken --

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

one thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?

But while she had been busy raising her children, the world had left her behind.

Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.

Le temps ne progresse que dans un sens et, qu'on le veuille ou non, il vous entraîne avec lui.

the test scores used in admissions are a measure of what colleges take in, not what they produce. The fact that an Ivy League school has freshmen with high SAT scores tells us that it is a good magnet for talent but nothing else. What should matter is how students, including those with low SAT scores, improve over the course of their time in school.

The real challenges that the country faces come from the winners, not the losers, of the new world.

In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that.

Mortality rates in the United States fell by 40% from 1900 to 1940 and life expectancy rose from forty-seven to sixty-three, note researchers David M. Cutler and Grant Miller.

For many decades, the world needed to learn from America. But now America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

Lenin is supposed to have once said, "There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen.

Historically the lesson is clear: if growing inequalities are not addressed by reforms, revolution might follow.