Quotes About Progress

They would reach the castle some time; and the chief would have to go forward.

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

Lavoravano dunque con grande energia ed allegria, benché col passar del tempo ci fosse un tantino di panico nell'energia, e d'isterismo nell'allegria.

The only way forward is to never look back.

He's gaining on us, the Turk said. That is also inconceivable, the Sicilian said. Before I stole this boat we're in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of Florin Channel and everyone agreed it was this one. You're right, the Turk agreed, staring back. He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.

You're right," the Turk agreed, staring back. "He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.

What with one thing and another, three years passed.

It's not important, believe me; the past has a way of being past.

The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. "Mawidge," he said. "Vewy old.

You're certainly blooming, Billy. Before my very eyes. I just don't know into what.

thereafter, the selfsame

If the society does not keep up its power, if it lowers its organization or wastes its capital, it falls back toward the natural state of barbarism from which it rose, and in so doing it must sacrifice thousands of its weakest members. Hence

The laborer likewise gains by carrying on his labor in a strong, highly civilized, and well-governed State far more than he could gain with equal industry on the frontier or in the midst of anarchy. He

The penalty of ceasing an aggressive behavior toward the hardships of life on the part of mankind is, that we go backward. We

a government, which does not rest on the sympathies of its subjects, cannot long abide; that human institutions, when not connected with human prosperity and progress, must fall, if not before the increasing light of civilisation, by the hand of violence; by violence from within, if not from without. And who shall lament their fall?

And, so to tell more about the South Watcher. A million years gone, as I have told, came it out from the blackness of the South, and grew steadily nearer through twenty thousand years; but so slow that in no one year could a man perceive that it had moved.

History is a ribbon, always unfurling. History is a journey. And as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us . . .

The first public gas streetlight in the United States is lit in Baltimore, Maryland.

Americans are a people of commerce. We are good at business. Freedom and capitalism have made the United States the greatest economic power on earth. The conviction that anyone, with hard work, can make a better life for himself is an American article of faith. Abraham Lincoln identified the vitality of this commercial republic in 1856 when he said, "The man who labored for another last year, this year labors for himself, and next year he will hire others to labor for him.

The final salute, on the day of his funeral, was to be the cutoff of all electric current in the nation for one minute. But this was deemed too costly and dangerous. Instead, only certain lights were dimmed. The wheels of progress were not stilled, even for an instant. Thomas Edison, I am sure, would have wanted it that way.

My little Asticot, I have abjured absinthe and forsworn cafés. I have broken my new porcelain pipe and have cut my finger-nails. As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

History is nothing more than a series of small yesterdays.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

When a thing is new, people say: 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: 'Anyway, it is not new.