Speed Quotes - Page 31

• But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Moving, Desire

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hubert Sisson (1980). “The divine comedy”

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• All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she'll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Black, Leeches

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• Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

  Dave Barry

  Science, Animal, Mph

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• It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Never Let Me Go, You Let Me Go, Our Lives

  "Never Let Me Go". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

  Thomas Mann

  Past, Air, Years

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• The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

  Vera Nazarian

  People, Helping, Remember

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• The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Heart, Apollo

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

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• So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Who I Am, Dust

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

  David Morrell

  Book, Writing, Rushing

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• Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

  Ally Carter

  Light, Trying, Liz

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• Even when I was dizzy with vodka, that smile never failed to make my heart speed up.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Dizzy, Vodka

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.3, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

  Deb Caletti

  Fate, Love Is, Clouds

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• Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Flying, Stories, Shells

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

  Ann Voskamp

  Cherish Every Moment, World, Moments

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.66, Zondervan

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• Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sorry

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.67, Penguin

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• An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Husband, Hunters

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.

  William Shakespeare

  People, Different, Cold

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• Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped with dual engines, Hector worked during magic or tech. He didn't go very fast, especially during magic, but so far he hadn't stalled on me either. As long as our high-speed chases stayed under forty-five miles an hour, we would be all set.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Magic, Jeeps

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• Andrea raised her eyebrows. "Look at you, all high-speed." "Yeah, you'd think I was a detective or something." Andrea held her hand out. "You'll jinx it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Hands, Eyebrows

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• I shut up everything inside. Everything." Words ground out through clenched teeth. "I thought if I could hold it, just hold it, it would be fine. But it's not." "Why?" she asked. "Why are you losing control so badly?" The answer, when it came, broke Sascha's heart. "Hawke." It was an almost soundless whisper. "Oh, Sienna." She stroked her hand over the girl's hair, even as her mind worked at piercing speed. "Has it been cumulative?" Sienna nodded. "The second I met him, everything crumbled, my shields, my conditioning, everything!

  Nalini Singh

  Girl, Heart, Hair

  Nalini Singh (2011). “The Psy-Changeling eBook Collection”, p.929, Hachette UK

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• All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Children, Reading

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• I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.

  Rick Riordan

  Pigs, Flying, Demigods

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• Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

  John Lennon

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

  Song: I'm Only Sleeping

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• If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Self Esteem, Passion

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