Quotes About Progress

I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

Haun! Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye!

Les erreurs sont les portes de la découverte.

The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.

pocket-book packetboat, gapman gunrun;

The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future

before all this has time to end the golden age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible...

Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?

wounds tingle most when they are about to heal.

O, not in the least tragic. I shall become gradually better, they tell me, as I grow older. As I did not die then they tell me I shall probably live.

E' morto per un brutto caso di ventesimo secolo.

The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia...

What we did in the last month, last year, even in childhood, shouldn't deny us the chance of reinvention

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.

Who can make sense of the roles we play? If I could draw any conclusion about the long, depressing slog of human progress, it's the possibility that unseen elements lie just on the other side of the physical universe and that somehow we're actors on the stage of the Globe, right across the Thames from a place called Pissing Alley, whether William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe are aware of our presence or not.

Get a lot of gone between you and this situation.

We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been, and I sincerely believe that in many ways the world in which I grew up was better than the one in which we live today.

It's always today, Jim, and it's just going to get better and better," I said.

Who can make sense of the roles we play? If I could draw any conclusion about the long, depressing slog of human progress, it's the possibility that unseen elements lie just on the other side of the physical universe and that somehow we're actors on the stage of the Globe, right across the Thames from a place called Pissing Alley, whether William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe are

I have long believed that my generation is a transitional one and will be the last to remember what we refer to as traditional America.

Time had removed him and it would not allow him to go back.

She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.

The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens.

Providing power is the only way forward." She