At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.
Richard Kerry

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
Robert Shea

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
Margaret Cavendish

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Maxwell Maltz

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
John Bolton

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Virgil

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
John Clapham

Error is discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
Mary Matalin

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
Georg Simmel

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
John Buford