How Quickly Quotes

142 quotes by 130 authors

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare
Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and… — Jean Giraudoux
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration. — Frederick Lenz
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware… — Frederick Lenz
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. — E. Nesbit
There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds… — Michael Keaton
I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it… — Jeff Garcia
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly… — Nicole Krauss
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. — Thomas a Kempis
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. — Saul Bellow
You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way… — Richard Petty
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders. — Bill Vaughan
Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often… — Ronald Reagan
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes… — Billy Connolly
Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it. — Edmund Hillary
When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly… — Madeleine M. Kunin
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or… — Edwin Land

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