Michelle Shocked Quotes

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

There is no such thing as standing still.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

New roads; new ruts.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

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

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Staying stagnant is not okay.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

We've come a long way, from where we've been. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.

To stand still is to regress.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.