Faster Quotes - Page 12

• Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Time, Past, Train

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.410, Penguin

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Adults

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

  Scott Adams

  Hard Work, People, Credit

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• You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Imagination, Way

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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• Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Growing Up, Hands, Midnight

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.621, Dell

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• I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short.” They are not!

  Christine Feehan

  Legs, Way, Walking

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Dark Guardian: Number 9 in series”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Morning, Years

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

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• I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

  Cory Doctorow

  Girl, Guy, Height

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.188, Macmillan

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• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Zenith, Way

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• No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Basketball, Heart, Important

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• Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

  Dan Brown

  Ability, Grows, Knows

  Dan Brown (2017). “Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon Series”, p.1354, Random House

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• If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Wall, Priorities In Life

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

  John Brunner

  Bullets, Helping, Speeding

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• And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Europe, Suffering

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.157, Ballantine Books

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• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Children, Names, Worry

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

  Andy Rooney

  Life, Paper, Toilets

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• Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

  Cornelia Funke

  Paper, Nightmare, Printed

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

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• Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.” You both sound like my mother,” I said. Shut up!” they both said in union.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Sound, Unions

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• Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Wings, Each Day

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Running, Believe, Athlete

  Bryce Courtenay (2006). “The Power Of One”, p.676, Penguin UK

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• Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Long, Gossip

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

  Bill Watterson

  Reading, Sweat, Comprehension

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• Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me. But as I ran, The Arm, that good left arm, took hold of the situation and spoke soothingly: ease up, Kid, it's loneliness, you're all alone in the world; your father, your mother, your faith, they can't help you, nobody helps anybody, you only help yourself, and that's why I'm here, because we are inseperable, and we'll take care of everything.

  John Fante

  Mother, Running, Loneliness

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• Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

  John Ortberg

  Peace, Powerful, Fear

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