Quickness Quotes - Page 4

• Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Love, Gratitude, Peace

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• domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

  Rebecca West

  Intellectual, Quality, Rabbits

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Men, Sloth, May

  George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.360, Gale Cengage Learning

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• That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

  King James I

  Men, Honest, Tricks

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• I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Believe, Use, Movement

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

  Kenny Anderson

  Want, Failing, Turns

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• Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Youth, Penetration

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.360

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• Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.108, Macmillan

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• I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

  Hope Solo

  Agility, Goalkeepers, Solo

  Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. October 06, 2011.

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• Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Women

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

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• No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

  Connie Willis

  Lasts, Problem, Said

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.18, Bantam

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• And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Pain, Rage

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

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