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Quotes About Rapid

And the Minister strode rapidly away.
~ Agatha Christie
My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them being opportunist thugs who'll recognize a good thing when it's offered to them.
~ Alastair Reynolds
On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.
~ Douglas Brunt
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
~ Joyce Grenfell
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
~ James Hansen
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
~ Bill McKibben
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
~ Lydia Millet
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems with limited resources, including limitations of time. The Singularity will be characterized by the rapid cycle of human intelligence—increasingly nonbiological—capable of comprehending and leveraging its own powers.
~ Ray Kurzweil
What, then, is the Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.
~ Ray Kurzweil
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
It was surprising, really, that 'Minute by Minute' did as well as it did and as quickly as it did.
~ Michael McDonald
With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
~ Arthur Laffer
I found the task so truly arduous... that I was almost tempted to think... that the movement of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither rightly perceive at first when the systole and when the diastole took place by reason of the rapidity of the movement...
~ William Harvey
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm an instant star, just add water.
~ David Bowie
I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
~ David Hume
I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, & are in a perpetual flux and movement.
~ David Hume
There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.
~ Mark Zandi
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
~ Robert Peel
I feel the need... the need for speed.
~ Tom Cruise
Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
~ James Monroe
Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion).
~ Emerson Fittipaldi
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
~ Alexandre Dumas