(539 quotes found)
“We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.”
Marcel Proust
“Funeral by funeral, theory advances”
Paul A. Samuelson
“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”
Brian Tracy
“Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
“Embrace change as an opportunity to advance to the next level.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“One of many reasons why some people today are very difficult to accept the existence of advanced technology in prehistory era is because they didn't realize that their minds have already been clouded by an unconscious presumption which states 'ancient people should be primitive, before gradually evolving into this modern era nowadays'. I call this as 'Toba Syndrome'.”
Toba Beta
“Take a chance and start to advance or make a retreat and face defeat. ”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“In order to advance in life, you have to accept what you are doing, learn from it and grow.”
Celestine L. Gray
