Unprogressive Quotes & Sayings

I started out as a Democrat. — Gale Norton

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human. — Robert Greene

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness. — Ana Ivanovic

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. — Agnes Repplier

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence. — David O. McKay

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge ... He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge. — Hugh Nibley

Two friends ... there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society. — Bertrand Russell

Unbind your mind, there is no time. — Frank Zappa

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family. — Tony Perez

I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them. — Gillian Welch

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted. — Paulo Coelho

You're mine to take, pretty one. I'll fuck you when I want and how I want!" Another surge of the heat wave, muscles clenching and squeezing. "Let me in," he commanded. "Don't fight me. I will have you dammit! You're mine!"
"Give me all of you," Killian demanded of Colton. "You're mine! It's mine. — Finn Marlowe

If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited. — T.F. Hodge

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel - a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady — H.G.Wells

Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near — Paulo Coelho

It's worse in the case of newspapers. Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food." p. 201 — F Scott Fitzgerald