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Quotes About Advancement

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.
~ Sheryl Crow
You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.
~ Star Jones
The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.
~ E. M. Forster
The more we become aware of the enormous pull in man to repeat what he has learned, the greater will be our admiration for those exceptional beings who could break this spell and make a significant advance on which others could build.
~ E.H. Gombrich
Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.
~ E.M. Forster
Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.
~ E.M. Forster
As civilization moves forward, the shoe is bound to pinch in places
~ E.M. Forster
And in time' – his voice rose – 'there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation
~ E.M. Forster
The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.
~ E.M. Forster
she had outgrown stimulants, and was passing from words to things.
~ E.M. Forster
Martin Luther once said, "We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished but is going on. This is not the end but it is the road.
~ Ed Hindson
Martin Luther once said, "We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
~ Ed Hindson
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
~ Edgar Saltus
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
~ Edmund Cooper
What he said was, they're finding so many new groups and sub-groups that in ten or twenty years you'll be able to identify a chap straight away just by his blood, like as if it was his fingerprints.
~ Edmund Crispin
seen as paving the way for an age of innovation.
~ Edmund S. Phelps
ni los unos, ni los otros creían que se avanzaría tanto y que el impulso separatista se haría tan extenso y dinámico. En este terreno la responsabilidad del gobierno español es considerable. Vio el independentismo como un proyecto inviable acariciado por unos pocos. Como tenía de su parte la ley y la fuerza, nunca quiso abordar el problema precisamente cuando no existía.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
~ Edward Abbey
Progress is a set of assumptions.
~ Edward Albee
good progress is often the herald of great progress.
~ Edward B. Burger
Vorsprung durch Technik. Progress through technology.
~ Anonymous
Better Things for Better Living . . . Through Chemistry.
~ Anonymous
You've come a long way baby.
~ Anonymous
Progress is our most important product.
~ Anonymous