Quotes About Swift

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

Few nations have been as reliant on nuclear power as Korea. In many ways, cheap and reliable atomic energy helped make possible the 'miracle on the Han River' - i.e., the swift post-World War II economic surge of Korea.

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

How much can happen in so short a time,

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

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied night,That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up:So quick bright things come to confusion.

Stand not upon the order of your going,But go at once.

Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,Towards Phoebus' lodging.

These most brisk and giddy-paced times.

Make haste; the better foot before.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

WHOOSH! The creature dodged

miles an hour.

Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound Swift as a shadow, short as any dream Brief as the lightening in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth; And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.'" "Brava!

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;

A girl like a squirrel! As swift, as sudden, as black and as red!

and the hour is quickened by crows