Quotes About Progress

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have... is now

You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.

A person can only move forward, she thinks. A person should only move forward.

So life goes on, I thought. (And now I think: It goes on, until it doesn't.)

It was always sad, the way the world was going. And always a new age dawning.

oh, I can't really explain what I thought! But it was very strange to think that the children I had were already—in just one generation—so different, so very different, from me and what I had come from.

But never mind, Olive thinks now. You move aside and make way for the new.

People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced—but moving.

But it's never starting over, Cindy, it's just continuing on.

a noted academic had said at a lecture last year. The dawning of a new age. There was always a new age dawning.

Ela se lembrou do que era a esperança, e era isso. Aquela agitação interna que te impele, que faz você avançar pela vida como os barcos abaixo abrindo caminho pela água reluzente, como o avião avançando rumo a um lugar novo, onde precisavam dela.

The trees off to the side have been cut down to make a parking lot. You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.

She remembered what hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life

The World to Come

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

The trouble with 'if only' is that it doesn't change anything. It keeps the person facing the wrong way – backward instead of forward. It wastes time. In the end, if you let it become a habit, it can become a real roadblock – an excuse for not trying anymore.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.