Progrress Quotes & Sayings

I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half. — John Madden

That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here. — Graham Swift

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Gritting my teeth as if it requires actual physical strength, I push the memory of him dying in my arms down, deep down. It almost seems to fight me, to want to surge into the forefront of my mind, and I sigh. Long ago I came to the realization that painful memories are persistent. The agony of them stays with you much longer, sharper, and clearer than sweet memories, that soften and assume a hazy, rosy glow in your mind, almost as if they have been airbrushed. Remembrance of pain is different; there is no muting of colors, no blurring of edges. No, its colors remain stark and bold, a palette of vibrant primary reds, blues, and yellows; its edges stay defined and razor sharp. Years later it can still cut you as deeply, make you bleed as profusely, as the day it was formed.
FROM AN UNTITLED WORK IN PROGRRESS — Lily Velden

We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands. — Muhammad Yunus

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. — Trevor Moore

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy. — Julian Castro

Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence. — Tomislav Sola

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. — George F. Kennan

The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact. — Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

I felt sorry for her, and I felt betrayed by my own compassion. — V.C. Andrews

I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles. — Charles Bukowski