Quotes About Progress

If a Victorian gentleman arrived in present-day London, he'd think we'd been invaded by glowing rectangles.

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Um homem não pode regressar. Ele pensa que sim, mas outras coisas se passaram na sua vida. Tem novas ideias, novos amigos e novas ligações. Não pertence ao seu passado, excepto pelo facto de que o passado terá deixado, talvez, marcas nele.

I remember when one dressed the part for the West End, and strolled with yellow gloves and a walking-stick. But that world has gone, and another takes its place, eyes see differently, emotions react to other themes. Men weep at jazz, and violence has become sexual. Time marches on.

It was time for another album, and as so often happens, you'll set off in one direction, change horses in the middle of the stream, and the whole thing turns into something better than you had envisioned it.

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form.

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form. This was one of those times, and I just knew it.

There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.

Nobody can hold a Bond forever.

You can't change the world if your motive is revenge. Vibes like that just aren't productive.

God never breaks a man down with problems except to build him up.

You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

In my book a pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land, and called it progress. If I had my way, the land would be like God made it, and none of you sons of botches would be here at all.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

The initial tenets of feminism have already been established--the idea that power is based on gender differences and that men's illegitimate power over women taints all aspects of society, for instance. But now we face the arduous task of systematically working through these ideas, fleshing them out and discovering new ones.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act..It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

To try to be better is to be better.

The task for staying unstuck is to stay unattached to the outcome and not look back with regret.

All we can do is step from one moment to the next, make our best decision with what we know, and breathe.

You see," said Margaret kindly, "we all know that men have more power than women, and I suppose the time has come for Norman to pass beyond you. He would not be cleverer than any one, if he could not do more than a girl at home.

A lifted world lifts women up," the Socalist explained. You cannot lift the world at all While half of it is kept so small," the Suffragist maintained. The world awoke, and tartly spoke: Your work is all the same; Work together or work apart, Work, each of you, with all your heart- Just get into the game!