Sped Quotes

• On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

  Nellie Bly

  Funny, Farewell, Sight

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

  Aeschylus

  Moving, Light, Golden

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

  John Dryden

  Firsts, Fame

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works ; Now First Collected, with Notes and Illustrations”, p.226

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• Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

  Ted Chiang

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean

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• O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Time, Morning

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.90

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• A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

  George Barr McCutcheon

  Men, Chicago, Doorways

  George Barr McCutcheon (2013). “The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.1476, Wildside Press LLC

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• The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

  Mitch Daniels

  Jobs, Believe, Recovery

  "SOTU: GOP Response". abcnews.go.com.

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• At night returning, every labour sped,
  He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
  His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
  While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
  Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Home, Night

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

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• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Rivers, Glasses

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

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• He dug his heels into his horse's flanks and sped down the path. He heard the others call out behind him, but he ignored them. He was sure Karl and Johan and the others would have searched the rosebush and that entire are carefully enough; there was nothing to learn there. But he wanted to get to the hunting lodge, to find Prince Grigori and punch him in the nose for losing Petunia, and then make certain that her sisters were alright. And then her would find Petunia, and he would bring her home.

  Jessica Day George

  Horse, Home, Hunting

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• We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.

  Lance Armstrong

  Strong, Race, Would Be

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.159, Random House

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• Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

  Mona Kuhn

  Photography, Discovery, Self

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• It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something." And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge." And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Night, Men, Judging

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Heart, Heaven

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Pain, Heart

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• Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Fall, Blow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Kindness, Sea, Land

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.253

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• Lightly I sped when hope was high
  And youth beguiled the chase,--
  I follow, follow still: But I
  Shall never see her face.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Disappointment, Faces, Youth

  Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188

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• There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.

  Alec Sulkin

  Horse, Gay, Black And White

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Grief, Mind

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

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• For years, Blockbuster Video has edited movies. Like The Bad Lieutenant, when he's masturbating while the girls in the car are doing the thing. I rented it from Blockbuster and sped to that scene, and it was gone. I called up Blockbuster, and I'm like, "I got an erection, and the scene's not there."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Girl, Years

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• Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Mean, Grace, Important

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• The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

  Henry Rollins

  Cameras, World, Information

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• I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Men, Horizon

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Dover Publications

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