My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.
Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.
Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.
Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.
It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.
I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
. . . With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents
One thing we said as an offense is we want to start games fast. . . we want the other team to play catch-up to us.
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.
The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine. . . In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change.