Quotes About Progress

Finn and Bobby are fighting over the wrong thing. But at least they're fighting." "And how is that good?" "Because that's the only way to get somewhere better." He shrugged. "If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life. —JANE HIRSHFIELD

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! —LEWIS CARROLL

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

I know it sounds crazy. How can someone figure out how to stay by going again? " I said, trying to explain it. "But going again is the only way I've ever found what I'm looking for.

People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You find yourself almost back where you started, but you've moved slightly. Like evidence of the time that has passed, of the things that have happened.

It's amazing . . ." he said. "When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

She's been told that it takes ten years to figure out what you're doing. Ten years. She takes a breath, smiles. She's ready to get started. With the beginning of it. Her life.

En el primer acto van a plantear cuál es su problema, en el segundo acto lo van a confrontar y en el tercer acto le encontrarán una solución.

That machine's a great invention! he said. Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Roma tidaklah dibangun dalam waktu sehari. Begitu juga sebuah jalan kereta api. Atau hal-hal lain yang menyenangkan dalam hidup ini. - Charles Ingalls

The last time always seems sad, but it isn't really. The end of one thing is only the beginning of another.

The days never have been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before." . . .

That machine's a great invention!" he said. "Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

Rome wasn't built in a day

Beyond the personal discomfort, her larger point was that women aren't going to achieve social equality until some technological alternative is invented to save us from being the only sex expected to go through it. If men were the ones forced to endure this ordeal, obviously such a technological solution would long ago have been devised.

Wanting more is a step on the way to a political idea, or so say political theorists, and ideas can have a way of turning themselves into demands.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

No self-respecting gastronome was going to look back on the 1950s with anything except pity. •

Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want.

I can accomplish more before breakfast than I used to do in a day.

Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.

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