Famous Quotes & Sayings

There has been progress in this (so far) and we don't want to have that progress slip away. ... We've been rolling this rock up the hillside and we don't want it to roll all the way back down.

Richard Boucher

We're told the session was useful. Preliminary reporting indicates that they made some progress.

Stephen Hadley

We think we're going to make progress on three of them.

Franklin Raines

We think we can make progress on upper-income premiums.

Paul Tagliabue

We're not making the kind of progress we need to be making. I don't think negotiations are going very well.

We're still working. We're making slow progress, but it's a long process.

H. L. Mencken

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Cassandra Clare

Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

Christopher Hitchens

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Nick Nolte

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

Mark Udall

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Idries Shah

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

Mary J. Blige

We are all just a work in progress.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

Juan Williams

If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Poppy Z. Brite

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Neil Turok

That's progress-when we prove things wrong.

Noam Chomsky

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

Jim DeMint

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

Gillian Anderson

Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Frank Herbert

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Haile Selassie

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Gunter Grass

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Milton Friedman

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

Julian Barnes

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Julian Barnes

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

Kris Carr

No matter how you feel, you made progress today.

Kristin Armstrong

I became a lot more educated on this arthritis thing when I was diagnosed with it, but basically OA is a degenerative disease, which is definitely something that you're not going to be able to stop because it's going to be ongoing, but there are certain things you can do to slow down the progression.