#ogres

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#enough #fortunate #guys #heavyweights #i

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#eat #effort #every #except #federal

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

#continually #force #increasing #least #line

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#along #everything #going #law #moves

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#cannot #cement #chastity #civilization #life

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. ↗

— Charles Edison

#constitution #our #progress #society #stands

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. ↗

— Robert Graves

#devalued #like #money #progressively #still

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

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#effect #literature #once #progress #social

I like progress but I hate change. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#hate #i #like #progress