S Quotes
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“Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul.
"At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary”
“Speechless During The Angriness, I Want To Commit Myself For Becoming A Self-Motivated And Determined Because Don't Hold To Anger, Hurt Or Pain. They Effect Your Spirit.”
“Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I.
My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.”
Source: Ill-Made Mute
“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.”
Source: The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
“Speed and consistency are far more powerful than perfection.”
“Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.”
“Speed beats intelligence. I've already made a decision, 8 moves and 3 mistakes by the time someone else starts to contemplate it.”
“Speed can save you time, but it can also steal your life. Therefore, in trying to save time by taking shortcuts, remember that it can also lead to negative outcomes.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.”
Source: Messy Spirituality
“Speed does not always kill. And not only that, sometimes speed saves a life.”
“Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?”
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.”
“Speed has become an important element of strategy.”
“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.”
“Speed in communication is the new competitive advantage.
Every missed reply is a missed opportunity.
Automation doesn’t replace conversations—it makes them faster and smarter.
The difference between a lead and a lost customer is often just response time.”
“Speed is a byproduct of good, slow practice.”
“Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.”
“Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.”
“Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.”
“Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.”
“Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.”
“Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.”
“Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to write a book or taking 10 days to write a book (or a comic or a film or an angry postcard) guarantees nothing in terms of how good or how bad that story is.”
“Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.”
Source: Messy Spirituality
“Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.”
“Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.”
“Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.”
“Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.”
“Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.”
“Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into
emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.”
Source: America
“Speed is the ability to take a decision in a few seconds”
“Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“speed is the curse of the age.”
Source: Death in the Stocks
“Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.”
“Speed is the essence of war.”
“Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.”
“Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.”
“Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.”
“Speed isn't everything; you gotta look cool on the touge too.”
“Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.”
“Speed lets you define reality, adaptability lets you survive redefining yourself. Two sides of the same coin.”
“Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.”
“Speed multiplies everything. If you lack direction, it multiplies your collapse.”
“Speed must have a limit. Time must have a stop.”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.”
Source: The Administration of Fear
“Speed of execution often trumps perfection of plan.”
“Speed of happiness is measured in Smiles per hour.”
Source: Slate
“Speed of light and limb, her father used to say, and although her head throbbed, although she had to clutch the railings sometimes to stop from falling, Vivien was a good runner, and she refused to stop. She imagined herself a wallaby, scooting through the bush; a dingo, slinking in the shadows; a lizard, sneaking in the dark...”
Source: The Secret Keeper