Top 251 Swiftly Quotes & Sayings

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

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 and so unexpectedly.

My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Once the USMCA is sent to Congress, the House has a responsibility to step up and swiftly ratify the agreement.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

Another reform I`m proposing is the passage of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant. The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed. And they will go fast, believe me. They`re going to go.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge our death.

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 pronounced upward curve.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

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!

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

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.

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed.

Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.