Rapid Quotes

297 quotes by 266 authors

The FDA has formed a rapid response team. — Andrew von Eschenbach
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all… — Thomas Jefferson
Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more… — Edmar Mednis
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons… — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were… — Kelly Miller
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. — Theodor Billroth
Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval. — Lloyd Grove
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which… — Milan Kundera
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging… — Laurent Fabius
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant… — Thomas Eakins
Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously… — Carlos Castaneda
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die… — George Crabbe
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau
Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is… — James Russell Lowell
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very… — Shunryu Suzuki
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of… — Matthew Simpson

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