Quick Quotes

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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved. — Marian Wright Edelman
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society. — Edward Abbey
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very… — Annie Leibovitz
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would… — Thucydides
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — James Russell Lowell
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind… — Jane Jacobs
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it… — Ang Lee
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me… — John Green
In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead — Jackie Stewart
For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way… — Jackie Stewart
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick… — Harry Houdini
It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and… — Philip Jose Farmer
There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick — Phil Anselmo
Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries… — Hugh Prather
We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and… — Theodore M. Burton
God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long… — Reuben Archer Torrey

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