"Progressiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fast you are going, and where you are going, and I fear there has been too much of this thing of knowing neither how fast we were going or where we were going. I have my private belief that we have been doing most of our progressiveness after the fashion of those things that in my boyhood days we called "treadmills,"—a treadmill being a moving platform, with cleats on it, on which some poor devil of a mule was forced to walk forever without getting anywhere. Elephants and even other animals ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson
... up my mind to a sort of heroism in believing the progressiveness of all nature, during the present melancholy state of humanity, and on this subject I am now writing; and no work on which I ever employed myself makes me so ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... olden time, there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammelled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... in this country, and the absolute medical freedom (until within a few years the colleges have procured medical legislation to help their diplomas, and their graduates) have given a progressiveness and practicality to American physicians which are beginning to ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various |
