Quotes About Progress

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

In about five years I had gone from selling cigarettes in the streets of Abidjan to playing for the biggest club in the world.

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

I've kind of found out that things in life come full circle anyway.

You know you've come full circle when you're working with Charo.

Success seems to go round in circles.

I think life takes circles sometimes.

With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through.

Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons.

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.

Brazil will change when its cities change.

In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers.

Art music is an evolving matter, and so are a lot of cities.

I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.