#ogres

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

#clearing #defeat #generals #making #move

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#i #i love #love #progress #reverence

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#celebrates #common #common ground #diversity #ground

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#administration #assurance #been #given #goals

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#motivator #nice #progress #word

They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#again #been #few #i #impressive

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#behind #comes #emotion #feelings #fiction

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#best #current #current state #embrace #embracing

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#america #birth #dream #each #his