Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep. " Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.
Can we rename [Taylor Swift] Pinocchio Swift?
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.
So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
I’m listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I’m pretty well-versed in the pop female category.
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.
I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e. g. , my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!
Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.
California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.