Quotes About Progress

The stern marble faces of these men can still be seen in the graveyards of Hamilton, though they have become soiled over the years from the soot produced by the factories that made them rich enough to afford tombs of this nature.

What was can never be again.

The thing about endings is, they can begin quietly enough. That's how they sneak up on you.

I do not know where I am going or what I will do when I get there. I know only that to put one foot in front of the other, moves me on, away from you to a place, where I do not want to be.

She's gone on that long road into adulthood from which none of us returns.

He's a good man, Ranger said. And you? I'm better.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.

War, famine, pestilence didn't stop my relatives from moving forward one foot in front of the other. They were good solid plodders without grandiose expectations. And that's the legacy they left me. The ability to plod forward, no matter the circumstances. I realize plodding isn't glamorous, but there are times when it serves a purpose.

Everyone wants to be a better version of themselves," he said. "It's easy for you because you just needed a new jacket. For some other people the job is more complicated.

Life is a series of natural changes. Resisting change only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

If you had told somebody in the year 1800 that there were invisible things called germs and that they were responsible for the common cold, he would have thought that you were crazy and believed in magic," Emerson said. "Today, everybody simply accepts it as fact, despite that they've never seen or knowingly touched a germ.

This here's the twenty-first century. Just 'cause we're women don't mean we can't be sick as men.

She'd wanted to grow up to be a superhero, and in a left-turn kind of way she felt like she was on track.

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

Their tiny villages were razed, the hillsides were shaved off, and everything was dumped into the water between the two islands to create one completely flat piece of land for a new international airport.

Unvollendete, Meredith said. Unfinished

In stages, that's how. First you let go of the things you loved.

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Well, Elizabeth, I said to myself, you certainly have a lot to learn.

It's great we have a female Thor. It's great we have a black Captain America. But those are just optics; it's optics of change... Unless you have the structural diversity, the structural change behind the scenes - more women, more people of color actually calling the shots and editing these books - those optics won't last.

I definitely don't have a problem doing sex scenes, but I tend to like to do things that initially make me feel a bit nervous. I don't think you can really grow at any job unless you do things that freak you out.

I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.