Quotes About Progress

Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps out a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herself. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on.

When you're on the road, there is always the promise of the next stop being better than last

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap — not one.

Looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished; no one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

We are; therefore, we evolve.

De geschiedenis van de holocaust zit onder de vingerafdrukken van de moderniteit, van de maakbare maatschappij

Nooit, nooit lijkt de toekomst op het heden.

He immediately began to de-privatize. He revoked the licences to the unpopular Imperial Continental Gas Association and fashioned it into a company owned by the municipality. The same happened with the water pipeline over the dunes and the Amsterdamse Omnibus Maatschappij (Amsterdam Omnibus Company), which had run a number of horse-drawn trams in the city since 1875. In doing all this, Treub instigated an evolutionary process that was to give a lasting social basis to city policy. From

Ongemerkt had zich binnen onze hoogontwikkelde samenleving een nieuwe tweedeling ontwikkeld: die tussen snellen en langzamen.

Geen orde zonder pek en teer

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

Do you know the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." "Wrong. That's the definition of determination.

One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older." She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.

What's done is done and can't be undone. We can only move on from here

Fail: First Attempt At Learning. Always try again. If you can't save a world, save a city. If you can't save a city, save a block. If you can't save a block, save a family. If you can't save a family, save a person. One person and problem at a time.

What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." —CHARLES DICKENS, A TALE OF TWO CITIES

There's no use going back to yesterday.

If "best years ahead" is the answer, then "things stupid people say" is the question.

When you step toward a dream, you step away from a regret

But our present will always be the sum total of decisions made in our past.

As much as I don't want to get their hopes up, I do want to get their hopes up. Hope empowers. It's the reason we wake and the reason we rise. The reason we keep moving forward.