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Quotes About Speed

Events moved with breathtaking speed in May, when John Knox
~ John Guy
IF WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER FOUR SECONDS, WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER THREE," he said. "IT JUST TAKES A LITTLE MORE FAITH." "It takes more practice," I told him irritably. "FAITH TAKES PRACTICE," said Owen Meany.
~ John Irving
You can think of the Carrion Spike as just a ship, but she's more than that. She's an expression of who Tarkin is; a small-scale example of the lengths he's willing to go. Stealth, speed, power…That's Tarkin, the omniscient, ubiquitous Imperial enforcer. And that's why we're turning her into a symbol of something else: of resistance.
~ John Jackson Miller
Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.
~ John Keats
De modo que aquí estoy, sentado en este tren. Fuera sigue estando oscuro sin más luz que la de los anuncios de neón que aparecen a veces. El traqueteo sobre los raíles es cada vez más rápido, y puedo ver que ahora los árboles cruzan velozmente la luna. Los años que me quedaban antes de ir a la escuela pasaron con tanta rapidez como ahora pasan esos árboles ante la luna.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
~ John Lennon
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
~ Daniel Goleman
[Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win.
~ Lennox Lewis
I think my experience is going to make a difference, but I also think that my speed and power are going to make a bigger difference.
~ Shane Mosley
My faith is the reason I run - it calms my heart and makes everything feel like a lift. My speed is definitely a gift from Him, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, He allows me to do it.
~ Allyson Felix
Getting that nervous feeling on the track...
~ Unknown
Life is a snail ride. Move at your own pace. Do what you want to do. And also move like a cheetah when you feel like it. And strike like a lion. People will learn.
~ Unknown
Achilles' miracle was his speed.
~ Madeline Miller
A su muerte, Aquiles enterraría con él todas las cosas veloces, hermosas y luminosas.
~ Madeline Miller
Achilles' miracle was his speed. His spear, as he began the first pass, moved faster than my eye could follow. It whirled, flashing forward, reversed, then flashed behind. The shaft seemed to flow in his hands, the dark gray point flickered like a snake's tongue. His feet beat the ground like a dancer, never still.
~ Madeline Miller
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
~ Major Owens
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
~ Marc Andreessen
Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
~ John Milton
Her father had warned Letty against going for rides with highway patrolmen. "When it comes to driving, they're a little . . . out there, I guess you'd say. 'Fast' isn't good enough for them.
~ John Sandford
And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
~ John Steinbeck
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.
~ Stephen King
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
~ John Paul Jones
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.
~ Unknown