Quotes About Swift

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense.

Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action

In fact, I do everything faster. I walk faster, talk faster, eat faster Ã¢â'¬Â¦ have sex faster Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

His words… like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.

His dress became neglected, and he wandered, as often exposed to the noon-day sun as to the midnight damps. He was no longer to be recognized; at first he returned with the evening to the house; but at last he laid him down to rest wherever fatigue overtook him. His sister, anxious for his safety, employed people to follow him; but they were soon distanced by him who fled from a pursuer swifter than any - from thought.

There was laughter in his eyes now, competing with a dissolute, and altogether enthusiastic, invitation to pleasure. In one swift gesture he turned her hand over and pressed a burning kiss on her palm, a touch so fast she didn't see it, though her hand curled instinctively, as if to protect the kiss itself.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore:In life and death a chainless soul,With courage to endure.

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

What I always keep in mind is that we'll take action on things that need to be done, promptly and without hesitation.

All our days are the same; they are all calm and beautiful; they pass swiftly and purely like those of our childhood.

She thought, in touching innocence, that in Miles Calverleigh she had found a friend, and a better one by far than any other, because his mind moved swiftly, because he could make her laugh even when she was out of charity with him, and because of a dozen other attributes which were quite frivolous – hardly attributes at all, in fact – but which added up to a charming total, outweighing the more important faults in his character.

twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.

When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.