Quotes About Progress

America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream.

Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE.

I didn't want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

Because I saw, suddenly, how it would always be for me, Sam's life unfolding like slides in an old projector I'd always be clicking through in the dark, stunning leaps forward in time--but never the uncut reel.

But here I would cite the philosophy of M. Scott Peck. In all groups there are four stages. Pseudocommunity. Chaos. Emptiness. And true community.

A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time

An interesting journey never follows a straight path

The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

All big changes of the world come from words

I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.

And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands virginity from a women is nothing but an asshole! Why don't we behave as Westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things! This is the reason they progress!!!

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

There are people who say we should make room for younger bands. That's not the way it works. They can make their own room.

That tour was riven with tension. But I think it was all the better for it. Pink Floyd was borne out of tension for so many years that I think it still functioned at its best when it wasn't just a band of happy misfits.

was a heady time to be young in Iran, on the front lines of change. They felt as though they were shaping not only their own futures but the future of their country and the world.

In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy's deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War II, had more combat experience than any other officer in the upper ranks of the US military, and some saw his appointment as a hint that LBJ was not entirely satisfied with Westy's progress.

The ratio of men killed in battle is becoming more favorable to our side. From a little better than two to one last January, the ratio has climbed to more than six to one in favor of our side."20 Westy argued that the ratio so heavily favored allied forces that in time the mounting toll would buckle Hanoi's resolve.

How do you bomb a nation into the Stone Age when, in modern industrial terms, they are not that far removed from it?