Best Swiftly Lines
151 Swiftly quotes by 137 unique authors
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came.…
— Madeline Miller
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Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat.…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
— Cesare Pavese
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We…
— Marvin Minsky
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
— Agnes Repplier
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When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these…
— Jessica Valenti
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When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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Benjamin Netanyahu has made the official policy of the Israeli government the two-state solution, at a time when he had opposition from many quarters. That…
— Michael Oren
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or…
— Barton Gellman
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Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
— Seamus Heaney
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When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they…
— Clayton Christensen
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A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current…
— Paul Singer
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Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a…
— Emil Theodor Kocher
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Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes…
— Ivan Turgenev
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a…
— Baldwin Spencer
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Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly…
— Moshe Sharett
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Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
— Hesiod
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But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these…
— Bhagavad Gita
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Oh My Darling I once thought you were my world and could never be without you, oh my darling like the swiftly wind you came,…
— Jessica Barajas
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But we don't have swim suits on!! Now he is grinning mischievously. Thats ok. He strips into his boxers and runs into the water going…
— Jade
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Life is nothing but motion and passes too swiftly for us to observe with the naked eye.
— Mark Laurence Torcuator
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And I am also here to say that if something were to happen, we are prepared to respond swiftly, to respond effectively, and to respond…
— Janet Napolitano
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I can fill ya wit real millionaire shit. Escargot, my car go, one sixty, swiftly. Wreck it buy a new one. Your crew run run…
— Christopher Wallace
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