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Quotes About Progress

In five days, lidar had accomplished seven times more than the Chases had achieved in twenty-five years.
~ Douglas Preston
I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
~ Adrienne Rich
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
~ Aeschylus
Little by little does the trick.
~ Aesop
Time is the best killer.
~ Agatha Christie
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
~ Agatha Christie
One must make one's own mistakes
~ Agatha Christie
I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?
~ Agatha Christie
Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
~ Agatha Christie
Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.
~ Agatha Christie
Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.
~ Agatha Christie
We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.
~ Agatha Christie
Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.
~ Agatha Christie
Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.
~ Agatha Christie
Every new development that arises is like the shake you give to a kaleidoscope—the thing changes entirely in aspect.
~ Agatha Christie
When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.
~ Agatha Christie
E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back? HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom! ~Ericsson; Hilary Craven
~ Agatha Christie
Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
~ Agatha Christie
The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away?
~ Agatha Christie
What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.
~ Agatha Christie
Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.
~ Agatha Christie
We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , it comes later.
~ Agatha Christie
It's no good going back over the past. It's the future one has to live for.
~ Agatha Christie
But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.
~ Agatha Christie