Quotes of: Advance Keyword

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

Ian McDiarmid

The mind can never foresee its own advance

Friedrich Hayek

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

Eugene Jarecki

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill

Democracy is a brawl settled in advance by counting heads.

David P. Gontar

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Joanne Harris

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

Martin Rees

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Julie Bishop

But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Brian Tracy

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

William Hague

The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could deny to be a matter of fact, when his attention was drawn to the evidence; and the occurrence of great geolo...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, an...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mer...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

Thinking about the haves and the have nots, I’m reminded of something Jefferson said. He was sitting at the dining room table in the White House when he picked up his fork, leaned forward in his chair, bunched up his eyebrows in surprise, and said,...

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

The best birthday present I ever got from my grandpa was a skinny black tie. It didn’t come in a bag, a box, or even rolled up in tissue paper. It came wrapped in wisdom. As soon as he gave it to me he said, “A tie would make a stronger impressio...

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watc...

Lost in the Funhouse

God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation t...

Joseph Smith Jr.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Frank McCourt

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Fred Saberhagen