Quotes of Swiftness - somelinesforyou

“ Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. ”

- Faith Baldwin

“ I liked quickness very much and Pete had it. And I really liked his acceptance of the role he had. He didn't get to play nearly as much as he expected to when he came, but he accepted it. ”

- John Wooden

“ I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it. ”

- Don Baylor

“ There were so many times I thought, "I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year." Then there were a couple of years where I thought, "I'm never gonna do this." If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time… ”

- Kate Bush

“ The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ”

- Henry Lawson

“ Lisle has very good quickness that hurt us. I thought our kids did a nice job not giving up when they got behind. ”

- Mark Porter

“ I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things. ”

- Julian Bond

“ Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. ”

- Charles Babbage

“ It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. ”

- Cleopatra

“ The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. ”

- George Santayana

“ Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. ”

- George Eliot

“ A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world. ”

- Edward William Bok

“ What shocked me most was that I could no longer touch him - the swiftness of this loss was like falling off a cliff. ”

- Catherine Bush

“ The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. ”

- Julia Ward Howe

“ The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ If you dont have a parent or an adult, a teacher or a mentor really see you, really love you, 'Yes, there are things you do I dont like, but youre fantastic, youre good enough. I love you.' If that never happens to a child, the child assumes its her fault and tries to compensate for it. ”

- Jane Fonda

“ This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing. ”

- Joseph Lieberman

“ We need to move the whole pack up. But these are all learning experiences. We're just starting to get better. We're a little inconsistent right now. And when we start getting consistent, we'll start getting better. ”

- Bob Brown

“ I am not too lavish with praise on players, as you know. Terry is a good player. He can catch the ball. He has a combination of hands, quickness and speed, all three of the critical factors for a receiver. ”

- Bill Parcells

“ Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends… with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice! ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ We often err by contemplating an individual solely in his relation and behaviour to us, and generalizing from that with more rapidity than wisdom. We might as well argue that the moon has no rotation about her axis, because the same hemisphere is always presented to our view. ”

- Arthur Helps
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