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Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. -- Theodor Adorno
The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss. -- Henry Ware, Jr.
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. -- John Milton
Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field. -- Stephen Hawking
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. -- Douglas MacArthur
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace. -- John Bruton
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. -- Khalil Gibran
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. -- Carl Jung
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. -- Jeremy Bentham
Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations. -- Ban Ki-moon
If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops. -- Gerd von Rundstedt
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. -- Robert Mugabe
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns. -- Sal Albanese
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. -- Khalil Gibran
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. -- David Ricardo
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. -- Thomas Carlyle
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement. -- James T. Walsh
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity. -- Hillary Clinton
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good. -- Michael Franti
I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up. -- Peter Jackson
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. -- Arthur Levitt
The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions. -- Hu Jintao
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. -- T. S. Eliot
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. -- Harvey Cushing
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. -- Ban Ki-moon
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. -- William J. Clinton
I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart. -- Mark Helprin
I am thrilled to support World of Children and its superlative efforts to fund changemakers around the world. It's a great privilege to be associated with an organization that recognizes and funds those individuals really working in the trenches, and I look forward to being part of advancing positive change for children everywhere. -- Stephanie March
You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age. -- Christiane Northrup
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. -- Jerome Frank
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant -- Derek Landy
Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. -- John C. Maxwell
Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world. -- Faye Wattleton
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. -- Gloria Swanson
You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. -- Oliver P. Smith
March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.' -- Bill Maher
Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good. -- Jim Butcher
Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing. -- John Harington
Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy. -- Li Ka-shing
OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide. -- Dave Douglas
I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun. -- Denise Levertov
Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart. -- Gertrude the Great
A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it. -- Anita Roddick
You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. -- Buffalo Bill
Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future. -- Jan C. Ting
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. -- Christopher Hitchens
For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life -- Isabelle Eberhardt
To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing. -- Widad Akrawi
You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet. -- Jason Mraz
Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ? -- Bashar al-Assad
Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace. -- Anne Wojcicki
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest. -- George Eliot
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene. -- Dominic Cooper
To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down. -- Radhanath Swami
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. -- David Bronstein
I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career. -- Andrea Jung
Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose. -- Robin Sharma
Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress. -- Cassandra Clare
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. -- Corliss Lamont
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. -- Max Muller
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth â?? these are one and the same fight. -- Ban Ki-moon
Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it. -- Sher Valenzuela
ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S. -- John E. McDonough
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. -- Vladimir Lenin
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man. -- John F. Kennedy
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me. -- Kevin Spacey
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey. -- Jeffrey Archer
One of the secrets to advancing in any job is to make yourself more valuable than what your position calls for. -- Idowu Koyenikan
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. -- John Stuart Mill
...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven. -- Ed Koch
Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches. -- Gjon Mili
Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state. -- Frederick Lenz
Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state. -- Frederick Lenz
The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world -- William Bradford
Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause. -- Anne Hathaway
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission. -- Adolf Hitler
This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern. -- Sean Carroll
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals... -- Ben Stein
We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace. -- John Ruskin
Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul. -- Pope John Paul II
I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to. -- Amelia Earhart
The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes? -- Jonathan Granoff
Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries. -- Bill Gates
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths. -- Gina Rodriguez
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it. -- Matilda Joslyn Gage
As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work. -- Colleen Hanabusa
If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash. -- Catherine Hardwicke
I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective. -- John Cleese
Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need. -- Dick Gephardt
Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose. -- David Deida
In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age. -- S. J. Perelman
Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time. -- Brad Williams
I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization. -- Eduardo Paes
If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER. -- Dave Barry
They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod. -- Russell Shorto
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. -- David Bohm
Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years. -- Patrick Leahy
When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far. -- Louis Farrakhan
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one. -- Naomi Wolf
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth. -- Pierre Bayle
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible. -- Mary Oliver
The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy. -- Joel Bakan
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life. -- Origen
I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy. -- George Verwer
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery. -- Nathan Oliveira
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts. -- Jerome Frank

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