The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. . . Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
She stood, squared her shoulders. “We’ll do it. Together. ” And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed a swift kiss on his lips. “Thank you for returning to help me. ” When she tried to move away, he latched onto her forearms and held her in place. His eyes were gleaming. "Next time you decide to do that…" What?" she said, stiffening. "Give you a little warning?" No. " He grinned. "Linger.
This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.
For most women being other-directed, focused on how other people feel and nurturing them, was (and can still be) a quality that girls were (are) heavily pressured to become. The unselfish or Self-less woman was (is) seen as ideal. The realization and articulation that the cultural ideal of the perfect woman was someone who had no sense of Self and was a key part of the angry energy that drove Feminism to its swift success.
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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.
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat. , Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. ]
I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
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.