He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters. . . But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.
The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started.
In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.
A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.
In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.
The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.
The best way to progress is the path of freedom.
Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.
This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.