Quotes About Swift

Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.

She felt that, in London, the job would have had to be swift and anonymous, but out here she sensed she had more time to be elegant and thorough.

The children sensed me, but I moved so swiftly, the sensation was too fleeting for alarm.

Speed is the essence of war.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.

Life goes quickly, doesn't it?

When I said that Mercy stood Within the borders of the wood, I meant the lenient beast with claws And bloody swift-dispatching jaws. —LAWRENCE SPINGARN

What was to change many lives happened, and happened very fast in the next moments.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

Rapidity is the essence of war.

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

A wide ladder with rubber treads on the steps allows for a swift, easy descent into the bowels of the city.

I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out.

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

They were wheels-up in less than fifteen minutes.

Both of them were as athletic and as sleek as otters.

Carolyn has great faith in the zodiac. She gives me a copy of The Secret Language of Relationships and refers me to it regularly. She can tell a person's sign after talking to him for ten minutes, and then how to fix his life, but I lack her intuitive skill, her propensity to solve. I lack her swift stroke.

Now we will begin the dance. Remember, child, this is not the iron dance of Westeros we are learning, the knight's dance, hacking and hammering, no. This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.