Rapid Quotes

297 quotes by 276 authors

'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR,… — Nellie Bly
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. — Tacitus
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the… — Lynn Steen
I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's… — Frederick Forsyth
An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems… — Jonathon Porritt
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing… — Tommy Koh
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat,… — James Prescott Joule
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,… — Seneca the Younger
In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than… — Carl Flesch
It was peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming because the priest… — Dane Cook
It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they… — Gabrielle Union
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The… — Lydia Lunch
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is:… — Janice Rogers Brown
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was… — James E. Talmage
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is,… — Nathan M. Pusey
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims,… — Vladimir Kramnik
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier

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