Outpaced Quotes

#1. Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments.

Kirsten Beyer

#2. The longer I lived in China, the more I sensed that the Chinese people have outpaced the political system that nurtured their rise. The Party has unleashed the greatest expansion of human potential in world history - and spawned, perhaps, the greatest threat to its own survival.

Evan Osnos

#3. She outpaced Severn. Whole years of her life had been narrowly defined by the fact that she couldn't even keep up.

Michelle Sagara

#4. Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Clement Attlee

#5. We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.

Ernest Istook

#6. The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Al Gore

#7. The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

William Vickrey

#8. Gravelip, a young, slight footman with a pocked nose and large ears, obediently gave a smile like toothache. He seemed less than delighted to have outpaced his friends in the ugliness race.

Frances Hardinge

#9. Costs have so consistently outpaced inflation that we now spend one out of every seven dollars the economy produces on health care

T. Colin Campbell

#10. The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

Klaus Topfer

#11. In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

Tony Kushner

#12. With the traditional six-month lead time on the delivery of international show content, designer collections can be outpaced by the so-called fast fashion chains. H&M, Topshop and Zara, or even Target and J. Crew, would have their versions for sale before the designer looks hit the stores.

Suzy Menkes

#13. N-D-A spelt else wise is to be in our D-N-A, was a thought reaffirmed.

Rajat Mishra

#14. Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ...

Van Morrison

#15. Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

Mitch Kapor

#16. Well I sup and well I dine,
When I drink my frolic wine.

Robert Herrick

#17. The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Adam Smith

#18. Social media technology creates a culture in which people turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, twitter, text messages to create a falsely upbeat, slightly overexuberant, external self that can be famous first in a small sphere and then, with luck, in a large one.

David Brooks

#19. Dinner at college high table is one of the legendary experiences of England. I could remember keenly each one I had attended; the repartee is sharper than the cutlery.

Gregory Benford

#20. The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economy system.

Tim Kreider

#21. When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

Charles Spurgeon

#22. Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Fred Saberhagen

#23. He wore his hair in a way that suggested he'd just rolled out of bed after thrashing all night. In an earlier decade, your friends would have told you,"Man, your hair's a mess. Go fix it."
Now they say,"Whoa, dude, cool do.

Marshall Thornton