Quotes About Swift

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly.

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb—for we have no word to speak about it.

Beautiful, Grillo said. Would Swift approve? Fuck Swift. Somebody should have.

the black, two-wheeled

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

She was like a bird for speed, an arrow for directness.

I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire.

Life is short, even in letter. (Vie, c'est court, Même en lettre)

WANTED: A needle swift enough To sew this poem into a blanket.

Given the proper incentive, no mountain, it seems, is too high to climb, no current too swift to swim, if one is a Cherokee.

The journey laid a magical finger on the genuine pulse of life and gallantly the machinery of human nerves strove to answer the bounding courses of the swift blue animal.

As fast as they peep up let's cut 'em down.

Not long, my duckie

When a dolphin swims fast, it's really fast!

Since I wrote you last, the summer is past and gone, and autumn with the sere and yellow leaf is already upon us. I never knew the time to pass so swiftly, it seems to me, as the past summer. I really think some one must have oiled his chariot wheels, for I don't recollect of hearing him pass, and I am sure I should if something had not prevented his chariot wheels from creaking as usual.

He practiced the code of swift reprisal that was almost universally practiced by the Indians themselves: Failure to strike back, he understood, would only be interpreted as weakness and inevitably lead to an even bolder assault.

Does not the morn break thus, Swift, bright, victorious.

Velocity!" Sunny shrieked. I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried.

Those who see quickly, will resolve quickly and act quickly,' said Julia.

L'immaginazione di una donna è molto veloce; salta dall'ammirazione all'amore e dall'amore al matrimonio in un momento.