quotes about Progress In Life

“Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.”

“A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.”

“I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.”

“And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.”

“The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.”

“I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.”

Source : Interview with John Kinsella, www.johnkinsella.org. 1998.

“Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.”

“Nature's first great title--mind.”

Source : Richard Dagley, George Croly (1822). “Gems: Principally from the Antique”, p.23

“There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."”

“All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”