Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all. — Faramir Copy Share Image
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“You must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will… — Seneca Copy Share Image
There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on… — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
“Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time.… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness,… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
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