Swiftness Quotes

“Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare. The reason for their swiftness is severely practical: food is so scarce up there that only those who can move swiftly over vast stretches of ground may hope to survive. The speed, the whorls and torrents of movement, are in plain fact the mountain's own necessity. But their grace is not necessity. Or if it is - if the swoop, the parabola, the arrow-flight of hooves and wings achieve their beauty by strict adherence to the needs of function - so much the more is the mountain's integrity vindicated. Beauty is not adventitious but essential.”

“when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly”

“The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.”

“Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.”

“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”

“Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment. ”

“We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.”

“I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.”

“Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.”

“Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.”