Quotes About Progress

We're plotting reformation of life as we know it," I replied, somewhat flippantly. "Oh, is that all?" she teased. "Why not start with breakfast?

Amazing how far we had come. A few days ago, I had been surprised to see Rei and Valene accepted as dancers in the nest; now anyone who wanted a part in this project was welcome. We had achieved half the goal of Wyvern's Court simply by dreaming of it.

If the worst comes to pass, these can be … discarded.

If there ever was a place where one could start again, it was Manhattan. Move a block, and your enemies become your friends. Move ten blocks and you might never see anyone you knew again.

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once.

I got bigger problems than that life hasn't turned out the way you hoped. You can harp on the past all you please, Dow, like some old woman upset cause her tits used to stay up by themselves, or you can shut your fucking hole and help me get on with things.

No one cares about the past any more," he whispered. "They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.

patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.

All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.

Either you are a part of my future, or a relic of the past.

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

All things considered, and well against the run of luck, he reckoned he'd come out alright. Might be he'd lost an eye down here in Styria. Might be he was leaving no richer than when he'd stepped off the boat. But he was a better man, of that he'd no doubt. A wiser man. Used to be he was his own worst enemy. Now he was everyone else's.

Then you've got a chance to do better next time.' 'Next time?' 'Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is.

never worry about what has been done, only about what will be.

La mejor pradera es la que siempre se encuentra al otro lado del horizonte. El agua más dulce, la del siguiente río. El cielo más azul, el que siempre ves encima de otra colina. Y antes de que te des cuenta, una mañana te castañetean las articulaciones y no puedes dormir dos horas seguidas sin levantarte a orinar, y sólo entonces comprendes que el mejor lugar quedó atrás, y que no lo viste porque estabas obsesionado en seguir adelante.

But I never stop trying. Doing better next time, after all, that's what life is.

we must sometimes have a little chaos if a better order is to emerge. There can be no progress without pain, no creation without destruction.

Siempre puede intentar hacerlo mejor la próxima vez. En eso consiste la vida.

They say belief is righteous, but to Muslan only doubt was divine. From doubt flows curiosity, and knowledge, and progress. From belief flows only ignorance and decay.

All I know is there's no changing yesterday. You can only look to do better tomorrow.

It is hard to lose something." Skara turned back toward the towering truss. "But it gives you the chance to make something better.

But that was civilization, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.

No reason to let the edge grow dull, simply because I have run out of enemies. New enemies will present themselves, before too long.

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