A Quote by Tony Kushner
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We'll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles, but these roles are not yourself. The spirit is non-local, but it leaves behind a fingerprint, which we call a body. A wizard does not believe himself to be a local event dreaming of a larger world. A wizard is a world dreaming of local events.
There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
If you don't seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it's full steam ahead.
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.
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