Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice T

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

He really made a lot of progress as well.

Jay Inslee

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

Ernst Mayr

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Kim Gandy

A lot of strong women there. But sometimes it is a tough place to make progress on our issues.

There was no progress on any of them.

The reports we are getting right now on where he's at and the progress he's making are really positive, so we're thinking he's going to be racing on Saturday.

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Gertrude Stein

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

Gertrude Stein

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Herbert Spencer

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]

Jerry Greenfield

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Jacques Diouf

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope

James Carroll

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

Horace Greeley

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

Herbert Read

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Herbert Read

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Herbert Read

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Ernest Lawrence

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Ernest Lawrence

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Fidel Castro

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

Jennifer Lopez

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

Francois Rabelais

Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Franz Grillparzer

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Franz Grillparzer

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Frank Zappa

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Jeb Bush

I would say national security is work in progress.