Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report, and that is not good.

Charles Edison

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles de Gaulle

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Jan Balkenende

There is all the more reason to say 'Yes' so that some progress can be recorded with the constitutional treaty,

Richard G. Scott

You are making better progress than you realize.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Bruno Rossi

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Louis C. K.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

David Hillery

There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

Cristina Saralegui

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

Paul Robeson

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Francis Crick

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

Jack Germond

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

George Bernard Shaw

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Jane Smiley

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Brandon Sanderson

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Jack Jones

We are taking steps one at a time.

Brian Johnson

Let the results be a by-product of you taking impeccable steps day-in and day-out.

Boz Scaggs

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.