Quotes About Progress

was daylight at the end of the tunnel. A long, lifetime of a tunnel, into the best, most glorious day.

I've labored my entire life for a better world than this. It's such a step backward.

Plans are what you make when you are starting your life, Martin. Life is what happens when you're making your plans.

Mountains fall. Deserts bloom. Oceans turn to sand.

as much as I like the past not to excist but it still does

Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

A motor-car cuts a swathe through the bright air, sharp-beaked, irresistible, shouting to the wind to make way.

When training kittens, consistency must rule, or else! Don't allow your kitten on the countertop one day and chastised him for it the next. First of all, it's not fair to him to change the rules in the middle of the game. Also, inconsistency sabotages any training progress you've made.

If you don't do something because it might get wrong, you'll never do anything.

The twentieth century contributed skyscrapers and typewriters and automobiles and telephones to the world. Solid, workable objects. Every innovation of the twenty-first century could be erased by a power failure.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

If women didn't throw themselves at men's heads, the human race would not proceed.

history doesn't die and it doesn't not fall coma

le laissez-faire va être une chose du passé

Lorsque vous essayez d'appliquer la régionalisation avancée dans le tiers monde, c'est comme si vous essayiez d'avoir un enfant d'une femme sans se galocher

what Morocco needs is real statesman

One has to fabricate their own world, we must create the steps that will move us forward, that will pull us out of the well. Let's invent life, because it ends up becoming the truth.

Uma parte de mim também não se sente nada à vontade diante dessas escolhas tradicionais. Mas não posso mudar o que já passou. E não creio que a forma de mudar o que ainda vem por aí seja ignorando o que se construiu antes.

em pouco tempo poderemos ter o pesadelo de gerações que não conseguem entender a literatura atual porque não conhecem os clássicos que a procedem.

We have all grown wiser.

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.