Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.

“He`s made a lot of progress from where we were with him in the spring, ... He`s running the offense. He has control. He knows what`s going on. Things aren`t going 100 miles an hour for him. He`s not forgetting calls, forgetting signals. That`s all part of the process.”

The great misfortune of our generation is that the direction which by the amazing progress of the natural sciences has been given to its interests is not one which assists us in comprehending the larger process of which as individuals we form merely a part or in appreciating how we constantly contribute to a common effort without either directing it or submitting to orders of others.

There is no such thing as progress or regress. The world is not getting better and better, nor is it getting worse and worse. It is simply moving along into the future, reiterating in different configurations the patterns that have already occurred. We can’t help but play a role in this unfolding drama, but it is a mistake to think that what we do makes any difference to the grand scheme of things.

“I think we've made nice progress, but it's going to be interesting to see if we lose any of the progress that we've made because of the long layoff. Nobody really knows. ... It's sort of like starting over. They just start over with a little bit more knowledge of what's going on.”

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

“This has been a work in progress. Of the 250 acres, about 70 of it is either wasteland along Doyle Creek or developed for wildlife.”

“It did get hard as she progressed. It was harder to take family vacations and to get off the ice for any length of time.”