Faster Quotes - Page 11

• Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sad, People, Special

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jan 16, 2017

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• Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, House, Half

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• History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Moving, Wave

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• whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Mind, Drones

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• We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Night, Men, Light

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• I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Growing Up, Ocean

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

  Michael Ende

  Thinking, Long, Trying

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• Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Race, Lines

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• You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Laundry, Pta, Folds

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• Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Running, Live Life, Winning

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• Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing.

  John Cheever

  Beautiful, Country, Believe

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

  Philip Pullman

  Running, Winning, Race

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• ...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

  Ralph Keyes

  Block, Writing, Waiting

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• I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

  Cornelia Funke

  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.660, Scholastic Inc.

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• man, i would have peeled off my shirt faster than you can say bubba loves trucks.

  P. C. Cast

  Men, Truck, Shirts

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.253, Macmillan

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• She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when she didn't have a notebook it was hard for her to think. The thoughts came slowly, as though they had to squeeze through a tiny door to get to her, whereas when she wrote, they flowed out faster than she could put them down. She sat very stupidly with a blank mind until finall 'I feel different' came slowly to her mind. Yes, she thought, after a long pause. And then, after more time, 'Mean, I feel mean.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Notebook, Mean, Thinking

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• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Father, Coffee

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you’re waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there’s nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass.

  Joel Osteen

  Knowing, Decision, Waiting

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• Progress just means bad things happen faster.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Progress, Philosphy

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.317, Random House

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• Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.

  Claudia Gray

  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Claudia Gray (2010). “Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Stupid, Silly

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

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• If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

  Lewis Carroll

  Doe, Wonderland, World

  "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

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• I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.

  Yann Martel

  Girl, Sweet, Jealous

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.80, Canongate Books

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• I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parenting, Talking

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• How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Eye, Sound, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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