#swift

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#dark #haste #hearts #journey #kind

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#clocked #daily #days #each #expected

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#eternity #fear #grieve #long #rejoice

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. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#economy #efficiency #extent #fuel #fuel economy

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#i #i do #may #people #really

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#antithesis #beautiful #celebrates #death #dissolution

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#around #bores #feet #fools #genius

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#after #dedicated #happiness #making #more

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing. ↗

— Aga Khan III

#day #every #every day #filled #fled