Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

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.

Helen Keller

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Cat Stevens

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

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

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.

It's a totally different place. We are starting to see progress on several fronts.

It's disappointing. It doesn't seem like significant progress has been made or is about to be made.

It's been a work in progress but they're starting to understand things.

Dusty Baker

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

Every day is progress. We're making progress like a turtle, but we're making progress in the right direction, I think.

Ernst Mayr

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ice T

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

He really made a lot of progress as well.

Idries Shah

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

Grant Morrison

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

Horace Greeley

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