Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We're making progress on K Street because the times they are a-changing.

Stephen Hadley

We're making progress, but we're not yet there.

Dan Johnson

We'll see what progress can be made on Tuesday.

We'll see if we can make progress there.

Charles William Eliot

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Ai Weiwei

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

Bill Phillips

Focus on progress not perfection.

Edward Gibbon

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

She has made quick progress and is very promising.

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

Ed Harris

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

Earl Blumenauer

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

Barbra Streisand

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

Barbra Streisand

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Barbra Streisand

I'm a work in progress.

Aya Cash

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Anton Chekhov

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.

Ban Ki-moon

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Bob Dylan

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Bonnie Bedelia

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

Brigham Young

God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

Artur Davis

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Frederic Bastiat

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

Dick Costolo

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

Abraham Lincoln

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