Quotes About Progress

Time is generally the best doctor.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

When a new thing or a new idea comes into the consciousness of the community, it is described, not by a new word, but by the name of the pre-existing object which most closely resembles it.

I would recommend that the reader picture the final participation as a direction in which we had all better be moving, rather than as a beatific consummation at which we might in some remote future arrive.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Freedom of speech and association; due process; habeas corpus; the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement; even the prohibitions on torture and extrajudicial killings—the law governing these constitutional principles looks vastly different in 2015 than it did in the summer of 2001.

All rehab can do is tell you what's wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.

It was the first time I'd ever been in a Roller. I sat there in the back seat, like the King of England, thinking, 'Three years ago, you were a puke remover in a slaughterhouse, and before that you were doling out slop to child molesters in Winson Green. Now look where you are.'

We'd recorded Black Sabbath in one day. Sabotage took about four thousand years.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Un tren que parte es la cosa del mundo más semejante a un libro que se acaba. Cuando los trenes vuelvan, abríos páginas nuevas.

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

Az elég jó utolsó mondat volna, hogy a mindiget javítom örökkére.

Bit by bit, the sparrow builds its nest.

The last year of the Vajpayee government, 2003–04, was the best ever—not just reckoning the years since 1947 but even going back to the last century, to the years of the East India Company, to the reign of Akbar and of Ashoka, and to the time when our forefathers had discovered Pythagoras's theorem, mastered the art of organ transplant and flew aircraft to other planets.

The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

Some things need to be broken.

Life is a competition, but it is not a race against anyone else. The real journey is against yourself and the true victory is being able to maintain your humanity.

Comfort is the enemy of progress

Ahora ya comprendes: el camino es un río con sed.