I guess now we know why they call them rapids and not…

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved…

— Martha Beck

Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good…

— Owen Jones

Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand…

— Al Gore

Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it…

— James E. Talmage

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will…

— Benjamin Franklin

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in…

— Samuel Hahnemann

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

— Bernard Lown

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

— Karl Marx

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the…

— Andrea Cremer

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears…

— Giacomo Balla

... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the…

— Yann Martel