Quotes About Progress

What I would note, though, and one of the things I really admire about the vice president: She is the first African American woman, woman of color, Indian American woman to serve in this job. Woman. I mean, so many firsts, right? It's a lot to have on your shoulders.

I definitely want to be in a situation where I'm playing with players that are getting me better every day by pushing me and vice versa.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

I knew I wasn't going to make money in the beginning, so I found another way to support myself - I was a receptionist. It's quite smart to work that way. Otherwise, you get vicious and desperate, and no one wants to work with you. Build your career slowly; then people start to trust you and pay you well.

I'm still an Irish republican; I absolutely believe in Irish unity and am working to achieve that. But over the course of 15 years or more, people like myself and others have been working to end the vicious cycle of conflict.

I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up.

Even though the Clintons started mass incarceration, which my brother is a victim of, things are going to change, though. Somebody made them do that.

Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes and did terrible things to you.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

That's one thing with stroke victims, you've got to have a goal and you cannot accept anything but that goal.

I want Victoria to be the number one state in the best country in the world.

I get up each and every day trying to do my level best to make Victoria a better place.

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency since before they could vote, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Lockwood in 1884.

Today, in 2014, Victoria is a better, stronger, more financially secure state than when we came to government four years ago.

It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.