Fleetest Quotes & Sayings

People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being. — Don DeLillo

I miss it if I'm not in it for any length of time; I don't feel comfortable. I want trees and I want frequent rain. — Murray Morgan

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond. — Stephen G. Post

I want to touch you," she said with an awe that made him flush. "Anywhere." God, his voice was rough. "Fuck, do anything you want to me." She — J.R. Ward

Not the soul that's whitest
Wakens love the sweetest:
When the heart is lightest
Oft the charm is fleetest.
While the snow-frail maiden, 5
Waits the time of learning,
To the passion laden
Turn with eager yearning.
While the heart is burning
Heaven with earth is banded: 10
To the stars returning
Go not empty-handed.
Ah, the snow-frail maiden!
Somehow truth has missed her,
Left the heart unladen 15
For its burdened sister. — A.E.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it. — Daniel Berrigan

The chickens have come home to roast. — Jane Ace

The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose. — Francis Thompson

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. — Thomas Moore

From birth,....... I've been on a mission now it's time to enjoy the transitions — Renee' A. Lee

The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme! — Jim Starlin

I never realized Death was so fleet of foot.'
'The fleetest. Always dancing in the shadows.'
'Always waiting for his next partner?'
'Dancing through a long list until he finds the perfect one. — Anne Mallory

That investors should be able to take physical possession of the cotton which underpinned the bonds if the South failed to make its interest payments. Collateral is, after all, only good if a creditor can get his hands on it. And that is why the fall of New Orleans in April 1862 was the real turning point in the American Civil War. With the South's main port in Union hands, any investor who wanted to get hold of Southern cotton had to run the Union's naval blockade not once but twice, in and out. — Niall Ferguson

It seemed ... that intelligence wasn't as pure and unalterable a characteristic as people believed. Being intelligent was like being good: you could be virtuous in one person's company and yet wicked in another's. You could be intelligent with one person and stupid with another. It was partly to do with confidence ... In a way she had been more confident when she had been eighteen and foolish. At twenty-three, with Michael, she felt less confident and therefore less intelligent. — Julian Barnes

A good defense was steadfast and strong and straightforward, dominating in a physical and merciless way. Offense could be messy and tricky, full of mistakes that made the ball tumble to and fro, taking the coach's stomach for a ride along with it. For Noll, like Brown before him, football's greatness appeared in the finest details, the inches won in the trenches, not the bundles of yards gained by the fleetest feet or the strongest arms. But mostly, to play great defense was practical, and there is logic and beauty in pragmatism. Logic was Noll's muse. — Chad Millman