Quotes About Progress

There is a time for all seasons," he quoted Scripture. "A time to break down and a time to build up. You've had your time to break down, and now it's your time to build up. Don't punish yourself for what you didn't do. Just put all that behind you and move forward.

Rick pushed the cart

Shake it off and look forward. Leave the past in a fog where even memories don't exist.

Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

When a person stops learning, they might as well drop over, graveyard dead." He shrugged. "Learning is what makes life fun.

in 1912, a developer paid the town of Pleasant

The past defines the present and affects the future

Yes, Manda. You're becoming a good detective.

Winning and Learning

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Ozzie arranged it, and more quickly than I would have thought possible. A million things could stall a plan like this.

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content? But he went onward.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

Coborâtul este partea cea mai grea din orice c???rare.

Mick had heard Portia say that before, but she had thought it was a tale. How could a colored man be a doctor?

So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges.

d]espotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvements, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.