“ Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 2.9K
“ How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 2K
“ What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ”
- Simon Travaglia- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.5K
“ To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,In the most terrible and nimble strokeOf quick, cross lightning. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 268
“ I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger. ”
- Jonny Wilkinson- Copy
- 800
“ Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 445
“ I think my constituents' view is very simple — no rush to judgment, don't be hasty, don't do anything too quick. ”
- Charles Schumer- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, then life like a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ”
- Langston Hughes- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 2K
“ Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust. ”
- Joe Bamford- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. ”
- Lynn White- Copy
- 1K
“ We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change. The predominant classroom model a single teacher lecturing to 20, 30, or even more students reflects the production-line model of the Industrial Age, not the technological demands of our Information Age. ”
- Janet Napolitano- Copy
- 3.4K
“ As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and population and prosperity increased rapidly in those inland sections which had formerly languished because they had no means of easy and rapid communication. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 1.1K
“ You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores… ”
- Garth Brooks- Copy
- 3K
“ Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them… ”
- Lucretius- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker… ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 855
“ Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn…endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat… ”
- Morrow Mayo- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry… If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. ”
- Auguste Comte- Copy
- 29
“ Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.7K
“ He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current… Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. ”
- Albert Pike- Copy
- 1K
“ It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made — when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt — it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 69
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