Quickly Quotes
2234 quotes by 1767 authors
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
— Samuel Johnson
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I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.
— Homer
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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
— Pericles
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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
— Horace
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a…
— Charles Perrault
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Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's…
— Roger Federer
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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas.…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do…
— Ted Koppel
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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to…
— Philip Roth
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Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system…
— Kent Beck
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The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think…
— Joseph Bruchac
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And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
— Julius Nyerere
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Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near…
— Ian Fleming
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The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would…
— David Byrne
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Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion),
— Emerson Fittipaldi
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Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know…
— Freddie Mercury
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When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my…
— Tony Visconti
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