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Quotes About Progress

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
~ Eric Temple Bell
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
~ Seneca
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
~ John Boyd Orr
Genius is never understood in its own time.
~ Bill Watterson
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
~ Sue Wicks
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
To create is, first and foremost, to create time.
~ Achille Mbembe
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'
~ Andy Borowitz
New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
~ Andy Rooney
So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.
~ Ang Lee
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.
~ Anita Desai
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.
~ Ann Landers
It's a great time to be alive.
~ Anne Lamott
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
~ Arthur Bloch
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
~ Arthur Helps
India lives in several centuries at the same time.
~ Arundhati Roy
When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
~ B. B. King
The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.
~ Barack Obama
I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.
~ Barack Obama
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
~ Barbara Corcoran