Quotes About Progress

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed— —things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess." Sofia nodded. "Funny how we say it goes. That's the way life goes.

Answerless questions can destroy. Move on. - A

a little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.

Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

There's always tomorrow, I tell myself. Which sounds less possible than someday, and much more possible than never. -A

Some days I'm up for the challenge. Some days I need to catch my breath. But it's a long story we're writing. Even on the days when it's hard, I know that someday it will be better.

We're still here, if you want to come back.' 'I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on

We think that time is the only thing that passes, but it also changes our relationship to places.

Si hacen las cosas bien, la próxima generación tendrá mucho más de lo que ustedes tuvieron.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard.

Instead of racing away from that terrible event," Alfred continued, "I think maybe it's time to start running toward something.

One discouraging aspect of identity politics is that the left shows they don't really want these problems solved. They will never acknowledge progress in civil rights, women's rights, or overall interracial tolerance. It is not in their political interests to do so because their political power, which they crave above all else, depends on the existence of perpetual classes of victims. Their lust for social justice (read: revenge) is insatiable.

Violence has followed our species every step of the way in its long journey through time.

These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.

In Lynch's realm, America is like a river that flows ever forward, carrying odds and ends from one decade into the next, where they intermingle and blur the dividing lines we've invented to mark time.

molecular genetic studies show that there has been an acceleration of human adaptive evolution over the past 40,000 years, and especially during the past 10,000 years

Para alcanzar la armonía y la igualdad, tanto los hombres como las mujeres deben reconocer que están unidos en un proceso coevolutivo que comenzó hace mucho tiempo y que sigue operando en la actualidad a través de nuestras estrategias de emparejamiento.

Little by little, new facts become blurred through old glasses fitted, as it were, for the needs of another generation; older men, assuming that the scene is the same as it was in the past, cease to explore or inquire into the present or the future."7

People change in some ways as they grow; in other ways they don't.

So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet fully assured of our place in the world and our hold on its swarming phenomena; so long as there is more to be discovered and made, more to grasp for and make real, we must go on inventing ourselves.