Quotes About Progress

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language...

Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.

I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.

This is not what I had planned; but perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?

?ôi khi núi non ph?i ??i d?i ?? c? nhân ???c tái ngá»™.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while. 'That'll do,' said Haroun.

The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards the centre of the stage, life went on fighting for equal rights.

The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race will finally grow up with you and put aside childish things.

Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, computer or bicycle. They go wrong.

At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast.

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.

We are other than what we would have been if we had crossed the oceans, if or mothers and fathers had not crossed the skies in search of work and dignity and a better life for their children. We have been made again: but I say that we shall also be the ones to remake this society, to shape it from the bottom to the top.

Youth was often wretched, the struggle to become themselves tore the young to shreds, but sometimes, after the struggle, better days began.

This is how history moves; the obsession of one moment is relegated to the junkyard of oblivion by the next.

Yet I myself am a discontinuous being, not what I was meant to be, no longer what I was.

incluso cuando la muerte avanza hacia el centro del escenario, la vida sigue luchando por la igualdad de derechos.

some fortunate patients could enter the OO (or Optimal Outcome) group whose members no longer showed any of the symptoms of autistic disorder

said, think of life as a novel, let's say a novel of four hundred pages, and then imagine how many pages in the book your story has already covered.

Cuidado con el hombre de acción que por fin desea progresar por medio del pensamiento. Un poco de pensamiento es algo peligroso.

within minutes, the entire village was in the water, splashing about, falling over, getting up, moving steadily forwards towards the horizon; never looking back to shore ... come back, he beseeched his wife: nothing is happening. come back!