“ I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible. ”
- Paul Martin- Copy
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“ Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. ”
- Ivan Turgenev- Copy
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“ What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ Meeting Ismail Merchant and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, it all came about so naturally and so swiftly. In a way it happened before I was ready for it. I didn't know anything when I first started out. ”
- James Ivory- Copy
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“ To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first or late, A work too great for fame. ”
- Mary Clemmer- Copy
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“ If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair… ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
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“ We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Ideally a painter should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition… ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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