Quotes for All
We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments? … Read more
Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance. Galeazzo Ciano
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, … Read more
The stress that we [with Abilities] always feel is trying to continue advancing with our music. That’s our plight, it’s ingrained in our personalities. We feel like we’re trying to race the world of music itself – just trying to create the best music, and as soon as we get done with one piece we’re … Read more
We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want. Enrique Pena Nieto
We must not think, \”Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge.\” The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light. Ellen G. White
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the nature of the book he has to write, just at the moment when his advancing years and declining health have made him doubt that he’s going to live long enough to write it. … Read more
I think that we’re just fortunate that you have an experienced legislator: 26 years of fighting for our issues in line. I mean, there’s nobody, there’s no man, nor woman that is being mentioned that has the legislative experience that she has and the passion in her heart for advancing the cause of women. Eleanor … Read more
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets’s wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men … Read more