Quick To Quotes

#1. Patriotic to the point of arrogance, quick to take offense at any seeming slight of his beloved country and government

Craig Pittman

#2. Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense.

Amor Towles

#3. She was quick to anger, quick to laughter, and jolly from the depths of her soul.

Willa Cather

#4. I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

Sharon Bolton

#5. We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Homer

#6. Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

Thomas Merton

#7. He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.

Meredith Duran

#8. We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe

Kelley Armstrong

#9. The sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Marianne Moore

#10. Smiling can be a deliberate, intentioned act. When it is that, it becomes an act of creation, and a powerful tool. Be quick to smile, and quick to share your smile with others. You will light up your heart and light up the room.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. It looks like an asylum landed here," Andrew quipped, poking his head out of Oliver's pocket. "Ooh, I spot an ass-shaped tent."
"What? Seriously?" Sophie said, surprised. However, she was quick to look away. "Oh. You meant that kind of ass. Jeez, Andrew.

Zeinab Alayan

#12. When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.

Nachman Of Breslov

#13. We're all quick to call someone else crazy, when the fact is most of us fear things that haven't happened and likely will never happen.

Charles F. Glassman

#14. Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

Alison Goodman

#15. Yeah, 'cause you were so quick to speak up earlier? it mocks. What's that one guy's name again? The one who is your heart and soul? Octavius? Othello? Bah. I can't be bothered to remember, either. How interesting, your hypocrisy.

T.J. Klune

#16. Study the business you think you might like. Satisfy yourself that they will suit your needs. There are so many alternatives available - don't be too quick to choose. Just about any business can fail and any can succeed.

Paul Clitheroe

#17. Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.

Al Gore

#18. Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

John C. Maxwell

#19. ...The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first hint of criticism.

C.S. Lewis

#20. It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

Helen Waddell

#21. In the period from 1945 to 1960, the number of orchestras in the country doubled, book sales rose some 250 percent, and art museums opened in most major cities. Ballet was quick to catch up: between 1958 and 1969 the number of ballet companies nationwide with more than twenty members nearly tripled.

Jennifer Homans

#22. He is a sweet boy, quick to laugh, easy to love.

George R R Martin

#23. When all the facts are in, swift and clear decision is another mark of a true leader. A visionary may see, but a leader must decide. An impulsive person may be quick to declare a preference; but a leader must weigh evidence and make his decision on sound premises.

J. Oswald Sanders

#24. Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.

Mooji

#25. We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

Faran Tahir

#26. We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Malcolm Gladwell

#27. When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it was a reflection of what's been happening in the ghetto.

Casey Kasem

#28. Always, always lead by example. Those whom you lead will be quick to grasp the true identity of a truly professional NCO and will be more willing to follow, obey and persevere.

Silas L. Copeland

#29. You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Bruno Latour

#30. For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...

Vita Sackville-West

#31. It may be that hope misleads. But hate - hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#32. Children in the kingdom of God hold onto possessions loosely. They know that the King is powerful and generous, and they know that what they have is on loan anyway. They are quick to help those in need. The rich, on the other hand, are sorely tempted to trust in their riches.

New Growth Press

#33. Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

Saint Basil

#34. I came at a time where male artists where dominating, so I had to do something quick to get people's attention. I wanted to let people know that women artists can hold their own compare to the men. Sex got their attention, while I open the road for the other female artists.

Lady Saw

#35. He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Horace

#36. People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

Grenville Kleiser

#37. do not be so quick to say "okay" it is alright to disagree with the action yet love the person.

P.M. MATHIS

#38. People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?

Max Allan Collins

#39. When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.

Travis J. Dahnke

#40. Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#41. Eternal Father, faithful friend, Be quick to answer those we send In brotherhood and urgent trust, On hidden missions dangerous, O hear us when we cry to Thee, For SEALs in air, on land, and sea.

Marcus Luttrell

#42. I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#43. When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

Christine Pelosi

#44. They smiled too much, were quick to compliment and support, but behind the stretched lips and soft words was a judgment. No one was ever good enough - at least not until they were dead. The dead were exemplary.

Michael J. Sullivan

#45. Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?

Jonathan Clements

#46. As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.

Drexel Deal

#47. Ir's just that nowadays people are so quick to boil you down to the bare bones of info and upload you into a system, you know? And I think no one can ever really know another person unless you really pay attention ... I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too.

Alexandra Bracken

#48. Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

John C. Maxwell

#49. I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

Abigail Disney

#50. The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

Misty Copeland

#51. Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ... Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

Bell Hooks

#52. Remain open to your dreams but don't be too quick to decide by what means they'll come true.

Elaine Orabona Foster

#53. Be quick to learn and wise to know.

George Burns

#54. I would prefer you did not apologize for anyone else," she said. "My father always says that if we were as quick to own our own faults as we are to apologize for those of others, society might truly advance.

Helen Simonson

#55. Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that on the inside she was much more like him. There was this strong, unbreakable will in her to fight for something, somwhere. But where? for what? and against whom?

Antonia Michaelis

#56. These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#57. When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Clint Eastwood

#58. One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.

Oprah Winfrey

#59. Like Eve, you're so quick to eat from the tree of knowledge.

E.L. James

#60. Once a cheater always a cheater. You can't measure your self worth off people who are quick to leave you. They were never worth your time to begin with.

Addison Moore

#61. Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.

Mary Jo Putney

#62. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#63. The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!

Avijeet Das

#64. We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles De Lint

#65. I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

M. Ward

#66. Be slow to correct and quick to commend.

John Wooden

#67. The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

Matthew Arnold

#68. Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.

Mark Suster

#69. You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.

Emmanuel Aghado

#70. Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.

Steve Maraboli

#71. A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

#72. We're quick to think of people as snobs, little realizing that perhaps they suffer from the same insecurities that we do.

Ken Puddicombe

#73. People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.

Jerry Della Femina

#74. Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.

Arundhati Roy

#75. Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

Herve Falciani

#76. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Aristotle.

#77. Don't be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

Israelmore Ayivor

#78. Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.

Michael Marcus

#79. Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Bernard Baruch

#80. Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.

Charles Todd

#81. Strangers are quick to help you because they don't have any grudges or vices to fall back on.

Crystal Evans

#82. The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

William O. Douglas

#83. Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

Max Lucado

#84. So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it.

Carter Scholz

#85. Do not be too quick to get angry.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#86. Victims of misfortune are quick to sense another of their kind from a distance, but in old age they rarely become friends, which is in no way surprising: they have nothing to share together - not even hope.

Ivan Turgenev

#87. Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you are, don't ever be quick to ask for help, let it be voluntary, and you must also learn to feign repudiation, no matter how valuable the offer.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#88. Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Dean Koontz

#89. [Some] Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.

Leon Dash

#90. I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?" When people flee to us from war zones, we first have to help. But we also have to be quick to look very closely at who it is that is coming.

Alice Schwarzer

#91. It's amazing how much power a smile holds. It's contagious and brightens people's day. It's also the most powerful camouflage. For that person who seems to have it all together is merely masking the pain of drowning tears. Don't be so quick to assume.

Brittany Burgunder

#92. In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#93. Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.

Xenophon

#94. Show your children God's love by loving them and others as Christ loves you. Be quick to forgive, don't hold a grudge, look for what's best, and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.

Genny Monchamp

#95. Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

Rudyard Kipling

#96. Snowden's itinerary does, however, seem to bear the fingerprints of Julian Assange. Assange was often quick to criticise the US and other western nations when they abused human rights. But he was reluctant to speak out against governments that supported his personal efforts to avoid extradition.

Luke Harding

#97. Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry.

Anonymous

#98. I just think you can't be so quick to be so sure of other people's situations. Examine your own situation. You also have a lot of choices. It's not always easier for other people. It doesn't work like that.

Jennifer Close

#99. I am definitely quick to adapt. I am not scared to come into a new environment.

Dasha Zhukova

#100. We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come ... this is not the end.

Aiden Wilson Tozer