Celerity Quotes & Sayings

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine

Advertising is a tax paid for being unremarkable.*" If that is true, then this tax is rising fast, which is good news for the government - not to mention production companies, media sellers, and agencies - — Joseph Jaffe

Solution - A method of fixing a problem or situation. Solution is a positive Netiquette Word. — David Chiles

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale. — Honore De Balzac

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. — John Stuart Mill

The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. — Bea Arthur

Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence ... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion. — Isaac Newton

Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that. — Rush Limbaugh

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity. — Francis Bacon

Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion. — Norm MacDonald

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism. — David Hume

A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work. — Harriet Prescott Spofford

There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity. — Stonewall Jackson

Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasing the mobility or swiftness of movement — Alex Lane

Celerity is tardiness when ardent desire urges. — Publilius Syrus

The balance between consumption and production makes price. The market settles, and alone can settle, that price. Market is the meeting and conference of the consumer and producer, when they mutually discover each other's wants. Nobody, I believe, has observed with any reflection what market is, without being astonished at the truth, the correctness, the celerity, the general equity, with which the balance of wants is settled. They who wish the destruction of that balance, and would fain by arbitrary regulation decree, that defective production should not be compensated by encreased price, directly lay their axe to the root of production itself. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity] — Edmund Burke

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. — Cleopatra

I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors. — Patricia Riggen

His interest never flagged. He would hear the same word twenty times with profound refreshment, mispronounce it in several different ways, and forget it again with magical celerity. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it. — Louis Pasteur

Spaceland, whose appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a — Edwin A. Abbott

Ah, the twins. I'll never forget the day they were born," and his smile dipped as he added, "no matter how hard I try ... — Derek Landy

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith. — Paulo Coelho