Best Swiftly Quotes
151 Swiftly quotes by 137 unique authors
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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The…
— Walt Whitman
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My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better…
— Peter Singer
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
— Arthur Machen
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
— Robert Grudin
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First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only…
— Roger Bacon
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Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.
— John D. Voelker
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It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
— Thomas a Kempis
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As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
— Max Hastings
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I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
— T.E. Lawrence
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For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the…
— Mariella Frostrup
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We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.
— Henry W. Kendall
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A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is…
— Eric Hoffer
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Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us.
— Jacques de Molay
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Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and…
— Winston Churchill
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To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on…
— Stedman Graham
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Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell…
— Marlena De Blasi
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Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has…
— Groucho Marx
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Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die…
— Margaret Drabble
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Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.
— Sun Tzu
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Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines.…
— Beth Moore
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Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon,…
— Theophile Gautier
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This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.
— Rumi
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Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of…
— Chris Hedges
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Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.
— James Oppenheim
Who Wrote These Swiftly Quotes
137 authors contributed a total of 151 Swiftly Quotes, led by these top contributors: