Quotes having the keyword Swift
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
by Zane Grey (Author, American , born in 1872) keywords: full, grows, love, more, multiply, poignant, swift, tremendously , years Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
by Tony Hillerman (Author, American , born in 1925) keywords: able, although, been, boat, feel, get, might, philippines, place, prison, sense, swift, talk, time, tropical, veterans, vietnam, vietnamese, visa , visited Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
by Abdul Kalam (Statesman, Indian , born in 1931) keywords: achievements, after, dedicated, happiness, making, more, running, solid, swift, synthetic , than 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.
by Aga Khan III (Statesman, Pakistani , born in 1877) keywords: been, day, every, filled, fled, fleeting, hour, life, love, minute, short, swift, time, too , wing Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
by Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Danish , born in 1970) keywords: age, asylum, built, dean, dreams, himself, his, inmate, insane, look, old, realizes, swift , youth To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
by David McCullough (Historian, American , born in 1933) keywords: back, college, courses, english, go, had, infinite, johnson, life, now, pleasures, pope, read, samuel, swift, them , those The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
by Ben Nicholson (Artist, British , born in 1894) keywords: always, any, beast, boils, corruption, dante, down, greed, guys, read, same, soul, swift, these, thing , whether Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
by William Petty (Economist, English , born in 1623) keywords: being, candid, chance, correction, etc, happening, impatient, judgement, leave, men, never, race, shall, swift, time, wherefore, whole , whose It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
by Agnes Repplier (Writer, American , born in 1855) keywords: comes, contact, conversation, currents, elation, enriches, learn, swift, thought , us The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
by Damon Runyon (Journalist, American , born in 1880) keywords: always, bet, how, may, nor, race, strong, swift , victory Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: comfortable, destructive, established, free, great, habit, institutions, merciless, privilege, revolutionary, subversive, swift, terrible , thought The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
by Georg Simmel (Sociologist, German , born in 1858) keywords: basis, change, consists, individuality, inner, metropolitan, nervous, outer, psychological, results, stimulation, stimuli, swift, type, uninterrupted , which The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
by Charles R. Swindoll (Clergyman, American , born in 1934) keywords: compromise, devastating, lot, misfortune, more, sudden, swift, than , wind For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
by William Irwin Thompson (Philosopher, American , born in 1938) keywords: constituent, cultural, culture, enough, evolution, first, global, human, individual, life, long, mind, now, player, swift, time , transformation Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
by Steve Wozniak (Businessman, American , born in 1950) keywords: ability, always, another, been, being, books, buy, children, engineer, freedom, gave, hero, him, invent, knowledge, now, old, own, problems, read, scientific, solutions, stood, swift, them , tom
