Rapid Quotes

297 quotes by 266 authors

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of… — Anthony Giddens
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath… — Anna Godbersen
Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed. — Bob Dylan
I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week,… — Marya Hornbacher
I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated. — John Dramani Mahama
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study… — Roman Jakobson
The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology. — Jeffrey Katzenberg
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx
The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a… — Toshihiko Fukui
Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the… — D. V. Ager
Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience. — Dalai Lama
One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process… — Naomi Klein
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been… — Barry Commoner
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than… — Winston Churchill
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as… — Leonardo da Vinci
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall,… — Sidney Lanier
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. — Al Bernstein
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. — Howard Hughes
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will… — Werner Herzog

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