Swift Quotes

339 Swift quotes by 263 unique authors

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. Warâ€™s very… — Douglas MacArthur
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn… — Herman Melville
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent… — Shirley Jackson
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. — Will Eisner
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what? — Walter Kirn
Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please,"… — Unknown Author
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a… — William Shakespeare
When I fully enter timeâ€™s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the… — Ann Voskamp
That's an L, as in love, and I love you more than I'll ever be able to tell you with words. I want to tell… — Catherine Anderson
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything… — Stephenie Meyer
May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1) — Erin Hunter
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through… — Carson McCullers
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For… — Khalil Gibran
Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a… — C.S. Lewis
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of Godâ€¦ Among the tribes… — T.E. Lawrence
He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose… — Elizabeth Hoyt
All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick… — George R. R. Martin
Swift as shadow, short as any dream — William Shakespeare

Who Wrote These Swift Quotes

263 authors contributed a total of 339 Swift Quotes, led by these top contributors: