Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

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

She has made quick progress and is very promising.

Aravind Adiga

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

Barbara Kingsolver

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

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

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.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

We had another long day. We made a little progress but I must say we didn't make enough progress.

Alan Cohen

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Alfred North Whitehead

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Aldous Huxley

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Albert Einstein

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Alexander Herzen

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Alexander Hamilton

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Alexander Hamilton

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Adolf Hitler

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

Abbas Kiarostami

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

Adam Smith

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Adam Smith

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Adam Smith

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

We still have a ways to go. I think we're making progress, but it's early.

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

There has not been any progress on that front.

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

David Gergen

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

David McCallum

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.