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But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. — Kate Morton

But courage was a flower, something that blossomed and wilted swiftly. And Gariath was a cold snap in winter. — Sam Sykes

when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love. — Rumi

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to. — Robert Grudin

Love is a vision, a firefly that majestically glows in the night for some time; then, it winks at you and swiftly disappears. — Vinko Vrbanic

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh. — Juvenal

Memory can move very swiftly. Words do not possess the same swiftness. — C.S. Lakshmi

Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit. — Helen Simonson

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes. — Agnes Repplier

Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. (Credit — Bill Bryson

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone. — John Bowring

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. — Noel Coward

Life runs on with bag pack of problems tackle them swiftly. — Kishore Bansal

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. — John Major

Night was swiftly approaching, but darkness would soon be a specter of the past — Luis Gonzalez

Like water spilt upon the ground
alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass! — Henry Van Dyke

How swiftly you dismiss our love... — Cassandra Clare

Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had help - perhaps a good deal of help. — Bill Bryson

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

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us. — Mignon McLaughlin

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal. — Charles Baudelaire

(A good mood, incidentally, spreads most swiftly by the judicious use of humor. For — Harvard Business School Press

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Quick as a hummingbird ... she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart. — James Oppenheim

Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease. — W. H. Auden

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep. — Seamus Heaney

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of. — O. Henry

Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us. — Jacques De Molay

It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth. — L. Ron Hubbard

From nothing into nothing how swiftly we return. — Rosamund Hodge

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full. — Jane Borodale

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. — Daniel Keyes

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. — Henry W. Kendall

Passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun. — Ray Bradbury

Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant. — Richard K. Morgan

The hand of God strikes swiftly, particularly when assisted by the hand of man. — Maurice Druon

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference. — Martha Ostenso

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. — Cesare Pavese

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife. — John D. Voelker

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected. — Sun Tzu

animals are strictly dry, they sinless live and swiftly die, but sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men, survive for three-score years and ten. — Robert Traver

Come to me swiftly, carry no trace. Lift me softly, then flow and race. — Shannon Messenger

It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people. — Joe Abercrombie

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. — Ray Bradbury

A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done. — Susan Kearney

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius

Hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly. — Laura Lippman

this was a time and a land where enchantments were swiftly made and broken — Shirley Jackson

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. — Gore Vidal

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream. — Catullus

Yes, the day the world ended and nobody was innocent again. God, how swiftly it all fell down! — Arthur Miller

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it. — B.G. Bowers

The dying go so swiftly at the end. Always the speed of their leaving catches me unawares; so much left to say, to promise, to pray for. — M.C. Scott

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest. — Patanjali

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! — Thomas A Kempis

Men spoke of tribal war, of a gathering of vultures in the southeast, and a terrible leader who led his swiftly increasing hordes to victory. — Robert E. Howard

Prophase, he agreed, writing it neatly in the first space on our worksheet. He swiftly switched out the first slide for the second, — Stephenie Meyer

And then we'll go to Tiffany's and get you a ring. And then
" he turned swiftly to look into her fade
" when can we get married? — Maud Hart Lovelace

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them. — Laura Esquivel

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it. — Max Hastings

The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die. — Joe Abercrombie

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly, — T.E. Lawrence

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked. — Joanna Baillie

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. — Ovid

Swiftly falling Like water running We are again at peace. — Maria Violante

Dick" Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, "Got to 'scram, — Thomas Pynchon

Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away. — Horace

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away. — Cristen Rodgers

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved. — Tiziana Stupia

The river moved so swiftly and yet it had no purpose other than to flow, just flow. — Gioconda Belli

I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me. — Deanna Raybourn

And after all, one does not die of it." "Die of what?" I asked swiftly. "Of being afraid. — Joseph Conrad

All men are fools, Your Majesty," Matthew said swiftly. — Deborah Harkness

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth. — Thomas Hirschhorn

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue. — A. Ashley Straker

The egg was vibrating, and not the egg on her plate. Astounded and flustered, she picked her fork up swiftly ... — Kitty French

Magnets collide, and swiftly align. — Laini Taylor

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar. — Joanna Baillie

Without thinking twice, he'd lifted his hand, still clutching the penknife, and drawn it swiftly along her milky skin, made his pain her own . . . — Kate Morton

I sleep, and dream I am moving, swiftly, in a high-prowed boat, upon a dark and silent water. — Sarah Waters

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. — Jodi Picoult

amazement, shading into dismay; a shallow horror sensation that cold springs of personal fear swiftly deepened. — Truman Capote

Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate! — Raimbaut De Vaqueyras

as if the world was turning, its center shifting swiftly to the point where she was standing, her — Alexandra Engellmann

The fantastic suggestion that he, Curry, might be a bore passed through his mind so swiftly that a second later he had forgotten it forever. — C.S. Lewis

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm! — Dr. Seuss

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone. — Edwin Way Teale

Today, I am a clear stream flowing softly through green meadows. I make my way swiftly but gently to my goals. — Julia Cameron

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Kyle strained his eyes to the horizon while they paddled swiftly through the fog. — Nicholai Ball

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across? — Gautama Buddha

His hand worked swiftly between my legs, arousal pooling and dampening my thighs, his tongue thrusting past my lips. — Aria Cole

Nowhere does time pass as swiftly as in Russia, though they say that in prison it passes even more quickly. — Ivan Turgenev

In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly. — Thomas Aquinas

That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly. She — Joyce Carol Oates

Doom that walks always swiftly, because she goes to the shedding of blood — Oscar Wilde

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. — R. Buckminster Fuller