George W. Bush Quotes

Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

All human affairs are ever in a state of flux and cannot stand still, either there will be improvement or decline.

People need islands of stability during periods of rapid change.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

World events move from the seemingly impossible to the possible.

History is totally unpredictable.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

In a democracy sometimes you go forwards and sometimes you go backward.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

… history turns out as always to be too messy, contingent and subject to the vagaries of human agency to be slotted into neat boxes.

Revolutions never go backward.

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

Wherever I go, the club is never to stay on the same square on the board: they have to move up. I don't know if it's coincidence, some calling, or destiny - but whatever it is, it's the story of my life.

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!