(355 quotes found)
“It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.”
William Orville Douglas
“The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.”
Daniel S. Greenberg
“It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas”
Charles Darwin
“Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.”
Helene Cixous
“One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.”
“With agents rapidly shifting to contact centers that either remunerate better or offer better incentives, recruiting, managing, and retaining staff has become one of the biggest issues that contact centers across Asia Pacific need to deal with.”
Shivanu Shukla
“The last three years have been insane, you know, just insane,' he says of his rapid rise to stardom. 'I just stay at the same pace. There's madness in the world around me, sure. There's nothing I can do about that. I just work as hard as I can work and play as hard as I can play.”
Colin Farrell
“This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning. I shivered all over. Whom had we to deal with? No doubt some new sort of pirates, who explored the sea in their own way. Hardly had the narrow panel closed upon me, when I was enveloped in darkness.”
Jules Verne
“Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.”
Ovid
