Advancing Quotes
183 quotes by 169 authors
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Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
— Jim Butcher
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Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. "I would prefer not to quit…
— Herman Melville
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The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the…
— Catherine Fisher
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Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing…
— Isaac Asimov
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A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
— Christopher Hitchens
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But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the…
— George R. R. Martin
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I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age…
— Jim Butcher
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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with…
— Saint Augustine
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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…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
— Virginia Woolf
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Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?†Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.
— Cassandra Clare
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The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few…
— Stephen Hawking
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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…
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
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It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give…
— Confucius
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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A…
— Abraham Clark
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To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.
— Radhanath Swami
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Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.
— Stephen Hawking
Who Wrote These Advancing Quotes
169 authors contributed a total of 183 Advancing Quotes, led by these top contributors: