Quotes About Swift

can protect you, but we have to move fast.

I am very efficient.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

She was tired of sad modern endings. She was tired of modern sadness and ennui. She narrated things calmly and swiftly like and easy-running stream

then abruptly

Cats can run fast,

Everything mortal has moments immortal, Swift and God-gifted, immeasurably bright.

Veneeni on kevyt ja nopea

A little politeness might smooth the way ahead. Knowing it was his turn to be dispatched, the best he could hope for was as swift a death as the one Massetti had so thanklessly received.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Everything in my life happens really fast.

But falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, as Jonathan Swift once said.

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it." McCarthy's

At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright where they were dull.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

I had scarcely known true intelligence - in all of Oceanos' halls most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite. Hermes' mind was a thousand times sharper and more swift. It shone like light upon the waves, dazzling to blindness .

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

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.

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

The more suddenly you act the less effort will be needed.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.