Quotes About Progress

What a revolution in her ideas!

The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.

I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his

Almost anything is possible with time

but time makes many changes.

A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here.

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.

Perfection should not have come quite so soon.

The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm...and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.

Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;

I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement. But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon. By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

if you are ever so forward and clever yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen is to do pretty well;

Ä°nsanlar, kendileri o kadar deÄŸiÅŸiyorlar ki içlerinde hep gözlemlenecek yeni bir ÅŸey oluyor.

Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century.

I've come to believe that students would benefit more if we moved away from teaching them how to use technology and toward teaching them how to use technology to learn and think.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people live fuller lives.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution—and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle... If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that's what will give you hope.

You may not believe in evolution, and that's all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

Here was a chimpanzee using a tool... That was object modification-- the crude beginning of tool making.