Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

James Cook

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Olympia Snowe

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Octavio Paz

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

Emile M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

William Shakespeare

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

Thomas S. Monson

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

Sylvia Earle

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Mencius

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Cliff Floyd

He knows there is more to life then baseball and an affair like this is tremendous for someone at his age. He is a veteran now. I am not going to ask him to carry my bags anymore.

Scott McCloud

Hollywood has a love affair with heroes' stories right now. It depends on people being motivated to make the movies, because first and foremost they have to make a good movie." ()

Rebekah Brooks

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

Sandy Berger

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Virginia Woolf

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

Vladimir Putin

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

Walter Lippmann

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

Fareed Zakaria

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.