Quotes About Progress

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

The cancer of time is eating us away

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.