Quickly Quotes

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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. — H. L. Mencken
Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly. — Andy Andrews
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way… — Paulo Coelho
One forgets so quickly oneâ€™s own youthâ€¦ — Graham Greene
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. — Jane Hamilton
Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very… — Norton Juster
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it… — Joe Strummer
The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly. — Mel Brooks
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid… — Sarah Addison Allen
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The… — Tadeusz Borowski
Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That… — Lloyd Alexander
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept… — Franz Kafka
â€¦Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that… — Pat Conroy
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are… — Bruno Schulz
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near. — Emily Dickinson
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. — Richard P. Feynman
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. [â€¦] The telegraph… — Neil Postman
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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