Quotes About Speed

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

love is like a train that will keep going at full speed whether you like it or not, so you may as well enjoy the ride. If you try to avoid it, you'll just make everything worse. What's meant to happen will.

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love is like a train that will keep going at full speed whether you like it or not, so you may as well enjoy the ride. If you try to avoid it, you'll just make everything worse.

time was like a river, and I was a fish in that river, moving so quickly that the world outside my household was blur.

Time goes faster than you think.

For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.

Progress just means bad things happen faster." Terry Pratchett

You must be quicker to strike and quicker when you do. You must be tougher and cleverer, you must always look to attack, and you must fight without honour, without conscience, without pity.

The power meter is a powerful tool for training, one that can potentially make you fitter and faster than any other piece of equipment you could get for your bike.

Dick Trickle

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart and reformed and fell in burning streaks.

Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff.

A gente esquecia que o tempo e o espaço eram uma coisa só até eles começarem a se mover depressa, até os pinheiros e postes de telefonia começarem a passar chispando. Então, no meio de toda essa velocidade, o tempo se expandia, de modo que o segundo que se levava para percorrer sete metros começava a durar mais do que outros segundos.

Die Todten reiten schnell. (For the dead travel fast.) —"LENORE," GOTTFRIED BÜRGER

A lie can go around the world twice before the truth gets its socks on.

Aquí, la cuestión no es hablarte de más acciones ganadoras (créeme, yo también he tenido mi ración de acciones perdedoras). Lo importante es que al examinar una compañía matriz que está a punto de sufrir una complicada división pueden surgir algunas oportunidades bastante interesantes. Dicho esto, actuemos con rapidez.

When answering the question "Who won?" "Peter. Damn mutant cyborg. He can run the fastest. I guess that's a good thing, since when people are trying to blow you up or put bullets in your ass, being fast is important." Lucas in Controlled Response

The baby intern scaled the walls of her crib and spent most of the weekend getting up to speed on the negotiations with Senecorp so you'd have it first thing this morning. You'll find her sucking her thumb at Alice's desk.

wondered if in some ways we are increasingly speed-reading life, skimming hurriedly from one thing to another, absorbing less and less.

The increase in the volume of information is what creates the sensation of the world speeding up.

In 1986, if you added up all the information being blasted at the average human being - TV, radio, reading - it amounted to forty newspapers-worth of information every day. By 2007, they found it had risen to the equivalent of 174 newspapers per day. (I'd be amazed if it hadn't gone up further since then.) The increase in the volume of information is what creates the sensation of the world speeding up.

The British writer Robert Colville says we are living through "the Great Acceleration," and like Sune, he argues it's not simply our tech that's getting faster—it's almost everything. There's evidence that a broad range of important factors in our lives really are speeding up: people talk significantly faster now than they did in the 1950s, and in just twenty years, people have started to walk 10 percent faster in cities.