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Quotes About Progress

Time marks us while we are marking time.
~ Theodore Roethke
Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
~ Thomas A. Edison
We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.
~ Tilda Swinton
It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me
~ Todd Barry
Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.
~ Tom Krause
If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.
~ Tony Blair
The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.
~ Tony Fadell
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
~ Trevor Dunn
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
~ Umberto Guidoni
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.
~ Unknown
Every idea has its time.
~ Vicente Fox
One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
~ Virginia Woolf
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
~ Walter Scott
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
~ Warren Buffett
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
~ Wellington Mara
You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.
~ Wendy Whelan
There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
~ Will Rogers
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
~ Willem Dafoe
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
~ William Henry Ashley
It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.
~ William J. Clinton
Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
~ William P. Young
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
~ William Shakespeare
I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.
~ Winston Churchill