Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

Edgar Allan Poe

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

Bart Stupak

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

She has made quick progress and is very promising.

She was a work in progress for most of the season. Now we have her right where we want her to be.

Ludwig von Mises

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Denis Hayes

That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

We need to make sure there is some tangible progress in November,

Tom Nelson

When you can be inconsistent and score 37, we'll take it. We're a work in progress; but I think we'll be OK.

Abraham Lincoln

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

If we're not going to make progress, we're not going to be here,

At the same time, I think, we understand that value of making progress where we can.

Talks are continuing, progress is being made. But it all takes a long time.

Talks are continuing, and we are making progress.

Talks are constructive, and progress is being made.

Miles O'Brien

Doesn't look like much progress has been made there.

Then we'll see if we can get him into some sort of games. It's time for him to progress a little bit.

The continuation of talks shows there is progress.

Dusty Baker

It's still a work in progress a little bit.

The blip is getting brighter. We seem to be making progress.

Gray Davis

They want to get rid of me to get rid of the progress, ... terminate the 'Terminator'.

We've been making progress. That's all I'll say.

Ross Brawn

We need to see how things progress before we make those sort of predictions or scenarios,

Mohamed ElBaradei

Yes, we have seen progress but we need quick progress.

Confucius

As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

David Gergen

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

Stephen Jay Gould

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

This was a tragic event, but there may be some opportunities here for us. Let's just say we're making progress.

There has not been any progress on that front.