Quotes About Progress

I support same-sex marriage.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.

As a martial artist, I discovered that there's always so much more to learn.

At the moment, the main impediment to progress was Claire, who had—blast the woman—halted her mare in front of him and slid off in order to gather yet another bit of herbage from the trailside. As though the entire house was not filled from doorstep to rooftree with plants already, and her saddlebags a-bulge with more!

But you'll get used to it. Life has to be lived. You can't sit by the road and watch it pass.

I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

don't spoil my learning process!

horrible horseless carriage. The invisible watchers

He could not believe things could get any worse—so they had to get better.

Sophie scrubbed on vigorously. "You'll be much happier when it's all nice and clean," she said. "But I'm miserable now!" Michael protested.

I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him?' [p. 153]

Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can't go back to how it was, we're designing a good life for us, in spite of everything.

Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

You have to make peace with the past or you can never move into the future

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

We're killing lots of dinosaurs though. The trains are helping." "The TRAINS are—" "Only one derailed so far," Urruah said cheerfully.

The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of "new ideas" that are actually old ideas renamed.

A river no more begins at its source than a story begins with the first page.

We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from the shape of later events.