Quotes About Progress

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

Life is my seed, I have yet to sprout.

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.

No matter how hard we may try, we can only travel forward. The relativistic laws guarantee it.

Revolutions that upend established scientific truth are exceedingly rare. But when they happen, they can have profound effects on science and technology.

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose time had already passed.

Le temps est fait pour avancer. Ne t'accommode pas d'une vie où il reste figé.

Time should move," Noni had told her. "Don't go in for a life where time doesn't pass, the way I did. That is the single best bit of advice I can give you.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

A journey once begun, has no end

No matter how glorious the past, choosing to live there is choosing to live in a tomb. Live in New Life!

One thing I thought was really cool is that we got a fax machine in our house to have scripts sent to us ahead of time! Okay, it's not a big deal now, but in the days before cell phones and email, only the fanciest offices had these special machines.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things

The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope." —ROBERT E. LEE

Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared.

I know I haven't 'taken a step back or retreated from a better future.

Chakotay took his hand before replying, "If you'll permit me the presumption, I've never been more proud of a journey I've witnessed than yours. If anyone had told me the day Voyager first set her course back to the Alpha Quadrant that this is where Tom Paris would be now, I wouldn't have believed it.

You're going to have to do better than that.

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

In terms of per capita income, the bottom half in America is better off. However, in terms of social progress, the average income of the bottom half of the Chinese people is rising much faster, albeit from a lower starting point.