Quotes of Swift - somelinesforyou

“ Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A willing heart adds feather to the heel. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ”

- Lord Kelvin

“ Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ”

- Golda Meir

“ But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near. ”

- Andrew Marvell

“ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. ”

- Orville Wright

“ Yet, Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. ”

- Lord Byron

“ And a word carries far — very far — deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ”

- Golda Meir

“ 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

“ On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada. ”

- James E. Rogers

“ I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ”

- Fred Allen

“ The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ”

- Chuck Swindoll

“ An experimental group of experienced women pilots in the United States might begin immediately flying small trainers from factories to bases. ”

- Jacqueline Cochran

“ Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ”

- Mary Kay Ash

“ Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice. ”

- Clara Hughes

“ Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough. ”

- Mario Andretti

“ The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. ”

- Robert Southey

“ Strafford who was hurried hence / 'Twixt treason and convenience. ”

- John Cleveland

“ Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do. ”

- Jane Fonda

“ The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. ”

- Bible

“ So free we seem, so fettered we are! ”

- Robert Browning

“ Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. ”

- Eddie Cantor

“ And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last. ”

- Sir Walter Scott
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