Quotes About Swift

I can run pretty quick.

I love making a difference, and doing it quickly.

I can generate attention quickly.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.

Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift.

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

A gain I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to men of skill but time and chance happen to them all.

Time went by, swift but interminable. Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.

Life goes quickly, doesn't it?

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.

Tartaruga! Pronto!

The more swiftly we proceed, the less time the enemy has to plan." "Do glass demons think?" "Under the circumstances, it's safest to assume they're up there drawing tactical maps in full relief." "Your argument has merit,

Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition— The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?

Well done is quickly done.

Sydney Smith is often compared to Swift; but this only shows with how little thought our common criticism is written. The two men have really nothing in common, except that they were both high in the Church, and both wrote amusing letters about Ireland.

Everything moved rapidly after the tea was drunk.

I simply go about my passage swiftly and silently, with a certain deliberate, dark efficiency.

Love is swift of foot;/Love's a man of war.

Yeah, I've got quick thumbs.