logo

Quotes About Swift

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
~ Baldwin Spencer
They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.
~ Arrian
Time gliding by without our knowledge cheats us, and nothing can be swifter than the years.
~ Ovid
I was back at the flat so quick that I nearly met myself coming out.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
One uses the verb 'descend' advisedly, for what is required is some word suggesting instantaneous activity. About Baxter's progress from the second floor to the first there was nothing halting or hesitating. He, so to speak, did it now. Planting
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I started m-p-h-ing it homewards in a thrice
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Tempus fugit.
~ Dan Brown
cristal. Marta intervenía rápidamente
~ Dan Brown
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
~ Robert Jordan
There's really no point in doing anything in life because it's all over in the blink of an eye. The next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.
~ Wes Anderson
A man's passion is like a fire in tall, dry grass, hot and furious but soon spent. A woman is like a magician's cauldron that must simmer long upon the coals before it can bring forth its spell. Be swift in all things but love.
~ Wilbur Smith
Eternals I hear your call gladly, Dictate swift winged words, & fear not To unfold your dark visions of torment.
~ William Blake
It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand.
~ William Faulkner
The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense.
~ William Faulkner
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
~ Chinese proverb
Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frdric Amiel
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Time is 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 eternity.
~ Henry Van Dyke
And now, haste, haste, haste.
~ lewis c s v
Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
~ Andrea Arnold
The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
~ Jeannette Walls
There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
~ Bill McCollum