Speed Quotes - Page 23

• It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pursued

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Grandpa, House

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

  Carrie Fisher

  Waiting, Looks, Done

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• As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mother, Children, Kissing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.181, Macmillan

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• One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fire, Interesting, Car

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• One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Character, Superhero

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Hate, Gay, Doubt

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• I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

  Ricky Williams

  Games, Play, Desire

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• I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

  John Lennon

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

  Song: I'm Only Sleeping

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• If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Self Esteem, Passion

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• Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Men, Race

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

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• Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Powerful, Law Of Attraction

  "The Secret". Book by Rhonda Byrne, November, 2006.

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• Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

  Mira Grant

  Girlfriend, Drinking, Guy

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• In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.

  Laini Taylor

  Fall, Cities, Wings

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, Comfort

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.231, Dial Press

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• If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Missing, Receiving

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• To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

  Peter Senge

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Suffering, Haste

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.547

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• This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

  Daniel Taylor

  Soccer, Football, Hockey

  "Kenyon's talk is cheap but Chelsea's big ideas need more than money" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2006.

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• Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

  Matt Selman

  Games, Speech, Chess

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2016

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• It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

  Herodotus

  Horse, Rain, Journey

  Herodotus (1961). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

  Mark Lynas

  Ocean, Cutting, Climate

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• Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.

  Redman

  Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Can't Wait, Album: Dare Iz a Darkside

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