Top 100 Quotes About How Quickly
#1. Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.
Sarah Dunant
#2. Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.
Frederick Lenz
#3. no one knew how quickly a human changed into a monster. All she could do was love him until that day came.
Kayti Nika Raet
#4. It amazes me, how quickly one discovers the truth, hidden deep within the mysteries of life; the secret, to enlightened vision, is but just a veil, one needs only to touch, and feather.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#5. Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like ...
Wayne Dyer
#6. It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Scott Westerfeld
#7. Can you use these on me? Right now, please ... Fuck yes. I'm always amazed at how quickly my cock can jump to attention at the hint of any sexual impropriety.
Ella Dominguez
#8. How easily Neverland is corrupted into the deserted island of Lord of the Flies. How quickly Tinkerbell regresses to being one of the flies pestering the gouged eye sockets of the pig that the lost boys butcher.
Gregory Maguire
#9. Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.
Randy Pausch
#10. Once you truly surrender, you won't feel like you are waiting anymore. You won't know how quickly or where your SoulMate will show up. Prepare to be surprised!
Annette Vaillancourt
#11. I crossed my arms. "You're saying I'm not usually polite?"
He staged a sigh. "It's amazing how quickly I can regret saying something with you ... "
"I'm polite. I'm very fucking polite.
Lani Diane Rich
#12. One of the best things about having a blog is that you've got a place to run your craziest ideas up the flagpole and see just how quickly they get shot down.
Steven D. Levitt
#13. How quickly they grow apart, when there is something to be superior about.
Seanan McGuire
#14. As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
William Manchester
#15. When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.
Lesley Nneka Arimah
#16. Beyond everything else, she loves this: how swiftly things can strike her - music, people, life - how quickly they can surprise her, all of a sudden, like a punch.
Nathan Hill
#17. She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love?
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#18. Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.
Rands
#19. The bell from the restaurant doors chimed behind them and Blake walked out. He stopped beside Holiday. "Is everything okay?" He cut his gaze to Burnett.
Burnett, eyes ablaze, pulled Holiday to his side.
"That depends," said Burnett, "on how quickly you get your ass away from here.
C.C. Hunter
#20. If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#21. I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered.
Eileen Pollack
#22. I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.
Bill Gates
#23. How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.
William Shakespeare
#24. I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
Billy Connolly
#25. I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
Halsey
#26. Yeah, it always amazes me how quickly people turn into good little socialists when they run out of their stuff. As long as they have something, it's theirs. Let them run out, and you need to share.
A. American
#27. The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office.
Kenneth Branagh
#28. Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else
ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.
Leif Enger
#29. How quickly a moment sinks into the past.
Anne Perry
#30. A small pot boils quick. You can tell much about the depth of one's character by how quickly he 'boils'.
Joel Osteen
#31. When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#32. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.
Ronald Reagan
#33. As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.
Eric Lange
#34. Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.
Alessandra Torre
#35. You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.
Richard Petty
#36. Nothing saddens me more than seeing how quickly the dog grows used to its leash.
Marty Rubin
#37. What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?
Victor Hugo
#38. Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
Douglas Coupland
#39. She has a point, Liege."
Ethan clucked his tongue. "Captain of my Guards and he carries the standard of my Sentinel. Oh, how quickly they turn."
"You're first in my heart, Liege.
Chloe Neill
#40. LATE ONE NIGHT in early October 1913, William Yale lay in his tent in the mountains of Anatolia, struck by a sense of wonder at how quickly a life could change. Just three weeks earlier he had been living in
Scott Anderson
#41. But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#42. When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.
Rob Lowe
#43. Because the thing about standing here in the middle of the mountains with the rain coming down, in a house your grandfather built, is that it's too easy to notice how insignificant you are. How quickly you might go from something to nothing.
Megan Miranda
#44. Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.
Tina Fey
#45. Such madness. When you're 20, love is like a fever. It makes you almost delirious. When it's over, you can hardly remember how it happened. Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out.
Irene Nemirovsky
#46. One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.
Donal Logue
#47. The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"
Erma Bombeck
#48. Son, how easily an open heart can be poisoned, how quickly love becomes the seeds of rage. Life wrecks the living.
Sunil Yapa
#49. You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.
Larry Ellison
#50. I was logging 15-hour days, sampling food every minute. I had access to these amazing dishes, and it was easy to lose sight of how quickly the bites added up.
Adam Richman
#51. It's amazing how quickly time moves. Just yesterday, I thought I loved her, but now, I don't even care about her at all.
Jennifer Flackett
#52. One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn
#53. How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use.
Jonathan Franzen
#54. Then there's your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces ... anything that's nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It's amazing how quickly you get into it. There's also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously ... about two litres a day.
Tom Hardy
#55. How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives.
Larissa Lai
#56. Funny, isn't it, how quickly the future becomes the past.
Lauren Oliver
#57. I'm amazed and disheartened at how quickly adolescents lose their innocence nowadays. Everyone is in such a rush to give themselves over to someone physically without truly knowing the person to whom they are entrusting with their body and emotions
Karen Amanda Hooper
#58. Whenever you hear yourself or others telling you you cannot do something, do that particular something, and notice how quickly everyone shuts the hell up.
Miya Yamanouchi
#59. How quickly the dead faded into each other,
Ian McEwan
#60. The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
Timothy Noah
#61. And I'm reminded just how quickly life can change.
Don Aker
#62. It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#63. The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
Bill Vaughan
#64. How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.
Elizabeth Lesser
#65. He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking.
Andre Dubus
#66. You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.
Andrew Shue
#67. I have learned to savor every minute of time with my four year old daughter not only because I know how quickly children grow up but also because I have no idea what state the world will be in when she is my age.
Grace Lee Boggs
#68. Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.
David Baldacci
#69. It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
Tim Berners-Lee
#70. Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.
Magda Gerber
#72. The two-year note has become the Treasury market's gauge of expectations regarding when and how quickly the Fed will raise rates.
Anonymous
#73. The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.
Ike Skelton
#74. How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#75. Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'
Ned Vizzini
#76. How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence.
Suki Kim
#77. After dinner, out of nowhere, it started to rain. It caught me off guard, and seeing the world that had only been sunny and warm transformed by a sudden thunderstorm was jarring, a reminder of just how quickly things could change.
Morgan Matson
#78. You will learn how much someone loved you, by how quickly they dismiss you.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. Father, a day upon the throne would be like a day of sitting on a bed of hot coals for me. If my heart has no peace, how can I fulfil your or the people's trust in me? I have seen how quickly time passes, and I know my youth is no different. Please grant me your permission.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. It's amazing how quickly the things you thought would make you happy seem small once you stumble on something true.
Hilary T. Smith
#81. Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
Teresa Of Avila
#82. The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
Horace
#83. To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
Jeff Goodell
#85. Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.
Ruth Ozeki
#86. Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].
Bill Gates
#87. I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.
Eckhart Tolle
#88. It was surprising to him, how quickly she could fall asleep.
Kent Haruf
#89. (How quickly, with a slight twist in perception, do people's strengths become flaws!)
Christina Baker Kline
#90. My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
Joe Biden
#91. Do you see how little it all matters? How quickly and easily I can take it all away, should I choose to do so? Beware, gunslinger! Beware, shaman! The abyss is all around you. You float or fall into it at my whim.
Stephen King
#92. Also there was the thrill, basis indeterminable, which made Glinda shy, and caused her to rush her words, and to speak in a false high voice like an adolescent. How quickly you could be thrown back to the terrible uncertainty of your youth! For
Gregory Maguire
#93. I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.
Mike Vogel
#94. She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do.
Patrick Rothfuss
#95. China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.
Juan Enriquez
#96. When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.
Stefanie Schneider
#97. I did not understand how quickly one could fall in love, and I regarded almost as an affliction that one would eventually recover from. However, I now recognize that it is a force that reaches into every fiber of your body, and that it is something not to be resisted, but embraced.
Mary Lydon Simonsen
#98. She's not dead, Henry kept telling himself. But her life, all lives, seemed tenuous when he saw how quickly, with what ease, all the trappings, all the fine details of a lifetime could be packed and scattered, or junked.
Ian McEwan
#99. Once you'd learned how bad life could go, and how quickly, you tried to protect those who remained.
Kristin Hannah
#100. We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.
Catherine Ponder
