Quotes About Progress

The past doesn't define us. It's what we do with the present that determines our future.

This is the natural next step for you. Or are you going to be satisfied running around the country solving crimes like Nancy Drew on steroids?

Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.

Women used to have time to make mince pies and had to fake orgasms. Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies. And they call this progress.

The past is who you are. The future is what you do with that.

It gets easier. Eventually you figure out what went wrong and you sort of breathe a sigh of relief that you didn't make a more permanent mistake. And then you just hope that you find someone who won't end up being another misstep.

The point of life wasn't to go back and litigate all those mistakes. The point, Cleo supposed, was to do better.

Without struggle there is no progress.

Don't get it right, get it written.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Small changes. Big differences

I know there's no use in looking back. It's started now. And looking back won't do anything but make me turn to salt. I blame my new designer shoes for the fact that my footsteps are unsteady. I blame the fact that I can't breathe on the blue dress's tiny waste.

Food is so yesterday." Unfortunately, that was the last time I'd had some.

He didn't need to find a way into the Gallagher Academy, he told himself. He'd be walking through the front doors soon enough.

And, of course, eventually, it would change everything.

A lot of things had changed on that bridge.

Life is a series of tiny choices.

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Lo que diferencia al hombre del animal es que el hombre es un heredero y no un mero descendiente. José Ortega y Gasset

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.