Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
~By Jane Addams ~
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 ~
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 ~
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
~By Vera Rubin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.
~By Greg Walden ~
Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
~By Bill Shuster ~
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
~By Harold Wilson ~
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
~By James Thurber ~
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
~By Page McConnell ~
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
~By Henry Knox ~
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
~By Robert Barany ~
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
~By William Banting ~
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
~By Paul Hawken ~
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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 ~
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
~By Herbert Read ~
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
~By Richard Cobden ~
You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
~By Artur Davis ~
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
~By Herbert Read ~
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 ~
Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
~By Kim Campbell ~
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~By Charles Kettering ~
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
~By Ed Harris ~
A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.
~By Jerry Jones ~
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
~By Leon Kass ~
Van Halen is a work in progress.
~By Alex Van Halen ~
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
~By Thierry Henry ~
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.
~By Richard Donner ~
If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
~By Estelle Morris ~
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
~By Robert James Graves ~
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
~By Alfred Adler ~
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
~By Tony Benn ~
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
~By Peter Camejo ~
We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
~By Frank Pittman ~
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
~By Felix Adler ~
Business can be a source of progressive change.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
~By William Blake ~
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
~By Karen Morley ~
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 ~
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
~By Karel Capek ~
As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~By James Inhofe ~
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
~By Peter Camejo ~
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
~By James Madison ~
The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
~By Doc Hastings ~
You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
~By David Strathairn ~
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~By James Bryant Conant ~
Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
~By Jim Hightower ~
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
~By Burt Rutan ~
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
~By James H. Breasted ~
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
~By Charles Dickens ~
I'm not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
~By Carl Jung ~
But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.
~By Janet Suzman ~
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
~By Howard Baker ~
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
~By Elihu Root ~
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
~By Christian Slater ~
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
~By Karl Marx ~
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
~By John L. Phillips ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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