I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
Find the courage to leave all your worries, fears, and doubts behind you. They are nothing but your enemies of progress.
Greatness can only come to those who are always thankful, but never content with any level of progress.
Any thought that goes against your happiness or progress surely doesn't deserve a space in your mind.
While in pursuit of your dreams, always bear in mind that fears, doubts, Procrastinations, and idleness are your enemies of progress.
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.
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)
Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
