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Quotes About Darting

Anxiety is like being in freeway traffic all the time. There's the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you. You hit the accelerator, you slam the brakes. You scout and scan for danger.
~ Deb Caletti
Anxiety is like being in freeway traffic all the time. There's the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you. You hit the accelerator; slam the brakes. You scout and scan for danger. Here, though, there is no traffic and no freeway. There is gentle company and books on shelves. There is quiet. There's fun. Dawn Celeste has a laugh that sounds like a pot bubbling over. Everyone gets to do as they wish.
~ Deb Caletti
They darted like needles through the morning - they wove the bright May morning into a fabric strong enough to support a party.
~ Jessamyn West
I was blind, she a falcon; I had an opaque pupil, she narrowed her eyes, with darting glances that saw more; I clung to her arm, among the shadows, she guided me with a stern gaze.
~ Elena Ferrante
You will flitter invisible among the indistinct dead in Hell's palace darting fitfully
~ Sappho
then abruptly turned and scurried away, darting into a passage a little further
~ Simon Scarrow
Soon ranging up by his flask, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up from another fling.
~ Herman Melville
some darting about for Earthly advantage, others attending to the faraway deeds of Angels, still others lost in contemplation of what it all means.
~ Neal Stephenson
Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do.
~ Nathan Englander