When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
~By Marilyn French ~
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.
~By Marion Jones ~
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
~By John Hutton ~
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
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.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
~By Johnny Winter ~
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
~By Robert Musil ~
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
~By James Thurber ~
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.
~By Jay Inslee ~
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
~By Powell Clayton ~
I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.
~By John Podesta ~
I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.
~By Debbie Meyer ~
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
~By Niels Bohr ~
The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
~By Andy Rooney ~
I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.
~By John Burns ~
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
~By Charles Scott Sherrington ~
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
~By William Ames ~
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
~By Epictetus ~
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
~By Luther Burbank ~
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
~By James H. Breasted ~
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
~By George Murray ~
I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
~By Yves Tanguy ~
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
~By Edgar Cayce ~
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
~By August Strindberg ~
Progressive rock was happening.
~By Tony Orlando ~
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
~By Leslie Caron ~
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
~By Marie Curie ~
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
~By Jackie Jackson ~
On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
~By David Rockefeller ~
We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
~By James Madison ~
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
~By Paul Harvey ~
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
~By John Moody ~
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~By Will Durant ~
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.
~By Glenn Beck ~
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
~By Alberto Fujimori ~
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~By Will Durant ~
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
~By Helene Deutsch ~
They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.
~By Jack Kilby ~
I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
~By John J. Sweeney ~
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
~By Richard E. Byrd ~
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
~By Dan Brown ~
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
~By Henry J. Kaiser ~
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.
~By Vito Fossella ~
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
~By George Bancroft ~
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.
~By David Petraeus ~
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.
~By Louise Jameson ~
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
~By Earl Browder ~
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
~By Angela Davis ~
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
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.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.
~By Tim Robbins ~
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