Best Pace Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 11

“You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.”

Being Yourself Someday Pace Always Be Yourself Pace Yourself

“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”

“His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.”

Source: The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin

“A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. It was - "Mmm-hmmm," Monica murmured, just as Wes came view into the path. He was running, his pace quick and steady. He was in shorts, his shirt off, staring ahead as he passed. His back was tan and gleaming with sweat.”

Said Hands Running Faces Views Millions Path Noise Staring Shirts Pace Sweat Steady Unfamiliar Shorts Monica Hmmm Shirt Off

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face”

Faces Easy Forget Pace Time Goes By

Author:Bil Keane

“Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.”

Knows Wells Life Is Walks Steps Five Car Right Now Twenties Pace Life Is Short Twenty Five Happily Ever After Ever After Old Car

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces”

Littles Stills Ends Matter Dog Honor Decided Twenties Hot Convinced Golden Gentleman Pace Costumes New Orleans Pirate Hot Dog Golden Days

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.”

Years Stories Song Reading Audience Taught Years Ago Performances Instinct Concerts Pace Translate Pacing

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly. Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.”

Wells Said Done Pace Well Done

Author:John Flanagan

“One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace”

Made States Moving Left Demand Discovery Surprise Pace Trusted Definite

Book:The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

“We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.”

Knows Has Beens Soul Moving Waiting Pace

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I hurl my heart to halt his pace.”

Heart My Heart Pace Halt

Book:Letters Home

Source: Letters Home

“If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.”

Ifs Want Different Born Situation Minutes Vices Just One Pace Right Time Vice Versa One Minute

Author:Slash

“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”

Ifs Want Dream Grows Dark Loneliness Wind Wings Your Dreams Finding Yourself Pace Trails Cocoons

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.”

Spiritual Growth Destiny Impossible Patience Inner Peace Spiritual Growth Pace Mastery Unfolding Inner Growth

Book:Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy

Source: Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy

“Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.”

Has Beens Moments Helping Wish Twenties Finals Pace Unkind

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.”

Firsts States Fall Hot Dance Legs Graves Suits Faster Repentance Pace Modest Repent Scotch Hasty Wooing

Book:Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition

Source: Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition

“The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk”

People Knows Want Walks Known Missions Tricks Hospitals Pace

Book:Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

“One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.”

Looks Mirrors Angry Things To Do Pace Better Things To Do

Author:Robin McKinley

“And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.”

“Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?” Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.”

Said Moments Missing Dancing Males Naked Pleasant Pace Torn Faerie Ribs

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.”

Long Art Sun Broken Pace Barren Emblems Dames

Book:Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein

Source: Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein

“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”

Reason Moving Tomorrow Good Times No Reason Pace

Book:The sky is falling

Source: The sky is falling

“Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.”

Trying Said Light Turns Speed Pace Impatience Speed Of Light Liz

Author:Ally Carter

“But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.”