Quotes About Progress

Não há outro sítio para onde seguir a não ser em frente. Ainda assim, uma parte dela anseia regressar por um instante - não para mudar o que quer que seja, nem sequer para falar com Lydia, nem para lhe dizer nada. Simplesmente abrir a porta e ver a filha ali, a dormir, uma vez mais, e saber que está tudo bem.

Each year they learn the same thing, just in bigger words.

But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now. Much faster and easier. Isn't modern science wonderful?

They would make a pact: to let the past drift away, to stop asking questions, to look forward from them on, never back.

People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.

Did you have to burn down the old to make way for the new?

It is not too late, he thinks . . . Not yet the end.

Do our pasts determine what we deserve in the future? And is it ever possible to leave your past behind?

Behind them, empty bookshelves. Bird has never seen books on them, but there they stand, fossils of a long-gone era.

A million little chances to change the future.

It is not too late. It is not too late.

There is so much more to do, so much yet to be mended.

Gitmek, kaderin hatalar?n? düzeltmektir.

Tanzimattan beri haz?r elbiseye merakl?y?z, haz?r elbise ve haz?r medeniyete… (Ma?aradakiler, s,314)

Bana sorarsan?z gerçek mutluluk yaz ya?muru gibi birden bo?anmaz insan?n ba??na. Davran???m?za, çevremizdeki insanlarla ili?kimize her gün azar azar çekidüzen vererek eksiklerimizi tamamlar?z. Yava? yava? biriken bir ?eydir mutluluk.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

as technology has changed, so have our tools.

happy is the nation without a history

L'unica gioia al mondo è cominciare. È bello vivere perché vivere è cominciare, sempre, ad ogni istante. Quando manca questo senso – prigione, malattia, abitudine, stupidità –, si vorrebbe morire.

I ragazzi, le donne, il mondo, non sono mica cambiati. Non portano più il parasole, la domenica vanno al cinema invece che in festa, danno il grano all'ammasso, le ragazze fumano - eppure la vita è la stessa, e non sanno che un giorno si guarderanno in giro e anche per loro sarò tutto passato.

Vivere è come fare una lunga addizione, in cui basta aver sbagliato il totale dei primi due addendi per non uscirne più.