Rapids Quotes

269 quotes by 245 authors

With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine,… — Unknown Author
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes,… — Eric Hoffer
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms… — Judith Martin
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. — Bernard Lown
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language,… — Paul Valery
The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever… — Unknown Author
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of… — Henry David Thoreau
I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment.… — Ernest Lawrence
I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did… — Siegbert Tarrasch
That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in… — Cordell Hull
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the… — Henri Pirenne
We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new… — Tim Brown
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the skies. — Garth Brooks
For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities… — Ray Dalio
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there… — George R. Stewart
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in… — Alice Oswald
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. — Ron Suskind
Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get… — Stephen King
My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what theyâ€™re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace.… — Tom Peters
Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue… — Philip K. Jason

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