Rapidity Quotes

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My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the… — Jane Austen
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing… — Alice Sebold
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a… — Leo Tolstoy
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once. — Alan Watts
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His… — Ambrose Bierce
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. — George Eliot
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it… — Jules Verne
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take… — Archibald Hill
The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity. — Archibald Hill
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity. — Richard Flanagan
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. — George Henry Lewes
Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and… — Cindy Crawford
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. — Warren De La Rue

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