Rapidity Quotes

57 quotes by 47 authors

Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through… — Dean Lombardi
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and… — Henry Charles Carey
As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge,… — Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. — Marcus Aurelius
The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his… — Paul Halmos
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put… — Joyce Grenfell
Rapidity is the essence of war. — Sun Tzu
No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who… — Gertrude Stein
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends… — Marquis de Sade
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other… — David Hume
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as… — H.G. Wells
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity;… — Eliphas Levi
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of… — Henry Lawson
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and… — Charles Caleb Colton
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or… — Charles de Gaulle
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is… — Marcus Aurelius
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming… — William Shatner

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