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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Alan Cohen
Truth
,
Through
,
Find
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
Thomas a Kempis
Away
,
Glory
,
Passes
Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
Anna Deavere Smith
Women
,
Men
,
School
I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.
Jeremy Renner
Time
,
Angry
,
Big
Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.
Jeremy Renner
Wrong
,
Creative
,
Movie
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar
Today
,
Young
,
Youth
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Tim Berners-Lee
Design
,
Care
,
Pretty
Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
Emma Roberts
Fun
,
Done
,
Films
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
Stanley Baldwin
Women
,
Enemy
,
Children
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
Stanley Baldwin
Women
,
Enemy
,
Children
I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.
Rihanna
Hate
,
Bored
,
Gym
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
Andrew Weil
Travel
,
Long
,
Human
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
Andrew Weil
Human
,
Die
,
Effort
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Pericles
Men
,
Again
,
Easy
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Roy H. Williams
Truth
,
Knowledge
,
Giving
Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.
Jane Seymour
Time
,
Sometimes
,
Wrong
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams
Through
,
Means
,
Read
I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
Delta Goodrem
Time
,
Give
,
Rather
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
Alexander Payne
Cynicism
,
Dates
,
Lasts
To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
Jeff Goodell
Good
,
Understand
,
Cooking
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
Jeremy Rifkin
Age
,
Public
,
Though
Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.
Jason Mraz
Made
,
Disappear
,
Hurry
The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
Phaedrus
Break
,
Serve
,
Kept
I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.
Alyson Hannigan
Time
,
Good
,
Fun
My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
Paul Gleason
Patience
,
Happen
,
Place
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
John Williams
Done
,
Memories
,
Ourselves
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
John Hawkes
Down
,
Find
,
Sometimes
Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.
Steve Yzerman
Decision
,
Down
,
Big
No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
Mark Zandi
Time
,
Home
,
Winning
The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.
Mark Zandi
Find
,
Free
,
Fall
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