Quotes About Progress

There is no modern approach on anything even when you change your environment and not changing an old system.

People of the world are not standing by for rhetorics in addressing the problems confronting the world, but for solutions.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

every proposal to cut carbon emissions, for example, must be tempered by assurances that economic growth will not be impeded - which makes one wonder whether the world would merit saving if growth had to be slowed to save it.

It may be true that one cannot stop progress, but the form of progress has always been contestable and open to variations.

history is the story of liberty becoming conscious of itself.

It might be said that the United States is the first known case of a civilization developing through disintegration.

Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

The whole world, if you wait long enough Is full of falling.

Mankind in the Christian era possesses one huge advantage over the ancients: a bad conscience. —EGON FRIEDELL,

As you may have noticed, things are racing along in technology space (where no one can hear you scream).

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

In olden days, a glimpse of stockingWas looked on as something shocking,But now, God knows,Anything goes.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today....

Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

We all go through that. Everyone's feeling a little out of sorts. No one knows exactly where he stands. Work is a wonderful way of putting you on your feet again, old boy

I was changing. Slowly, if you like, but what matter? To change is the great thing.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.