Quotes About Progress

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

Dynamism is a function of change.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable. There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

In a way, the goal of all writing projects should be to "get the hell out." You don't simply want to finish; you want to finish as quickly and easily as possible (without undue stress or pressure, of course) so that you can move on to the next project—or, the rest of your life.

Who does not grow, declines.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

A cura está ligada ao tempo e, às vezes, também, às circunstâncias.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

But I do not think the flying machine will ever be used for ordinary traffic and for what may be called "popular" purposes. People who write about the conditions under which the business and pleasure of the world will be carried on in another hundred years generally make flying machines take the place of railways and steamers, but that such will ever be the case I very much doubt.

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you.

This story is the tale of me starting to walk. Not in the physical sense… but in an adolescence to adulthood sort of way…

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

En los últimos 100 años la medicina ha hecho grandes avances. Irónicamente el número de personas que enferman sigue en aumento. Si la medicina ha progresado de verdad, ¿por qué no hay menos enfermos?

How would he react to a Japan that is so radically different, on the surface at least, from what it was in 1944?