Quickest Quotes & Sayings

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth. — Christoph Waltz

[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets. — Jeremy Paxman

The digital communications technology that was once imagined as a universe of transparent and perpetual illumination, in which cancerous falsehoods would perish beneath a saturation bombardment of irradiating data, has instead generated a much murkier and verification-free habitat where a google-generated search will deliver an electronic page on which links to lies and lunacy appear in identical format as those to truths and sanity. But why should we ever have assumed that technology and reason would be mutually self-reinforcing? The quickest visit to say, a site called Stormfront will persuade you that the demonic is in fact the best customer of the electronic. — Simon Schama

Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis. — Manolo Blahnik

No matter what the political environment, blasphemy laws lend the power of the state to particular religious authorities and effectively reinforce extreme views, since the most conservative or hard-line elements in a religious community are generally the quickest to take offence and the first to claim the mantle of orthodoxy. Virtually any act has the potential to draw an accusation and prosecution — Nick Cohen

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul. — Chris Tomlin

The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more ... — Matthew Barnett

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. — Charles Caleb Colton

The quickest way to failure, is to consider it! — Sandi K. Whipple

I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something. — Kim Harrison

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it ... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. — Dale Carnegie

As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes. — Angela N. Blount

Don't be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses. — Israelmore Ayivor

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves. — Haruki Murakami

The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things. — Jeremy Riddle

Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life. — Louise Hay

The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have. — Werner Erhard

The quickest way to the top, is getting off your bottom — Benny Bellamacina

I've found that watching is the quickest way to learn, and the safest way to stay alive." Alucard — V.E Schwab

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world. — Lucille Ball

When you're busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer. — Marilyn Suttle

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence - — John Taylor Gatto

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest. — Neil Gaiman

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks. — Craig Groeschel

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way. — Joe Frazier

He kissed her forehead and pushed away. She moved so he could reach the doorknob and open the door. Standing in the opening, he glanced back at her. She waited for him to say something ... Goodbye, Thanks for the blowjob, something, anything. Instead, he tipped his head in a small nod, stepped outside and pulled the door closed behind him. That was it, then. In less than an hour, this man had captured her heart, loved her and then left her. It had to be the quickest beginning ,middle and ending of a romance in the history of the world. — Cat Johnson

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship. — Susan Glaspell

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts. — Daniel H. Pink

Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best. — George Orwell

The quickest way to recognize a cult is its treatment of Jesus. — Pat Robertson

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous. — Norm Coleman

It didn't help that I was never allowed to study anything remotely contemporary until the last year of university: there was never any sense of that leading to this. If anything, my education gave me the opposite impression, of an end to cultural history round about the time that Forster wrote A Passage to India. The quickest way to kill all love for the classics, I can see now, is to tell young people that nothing else maters, because then all they can do is look at them in a museum of literature, through glass cases. Don't touch! And don't think for a moment that they want to live in the same world as you! And so a lot of adult life
if your hunger and curiosity haven't been squelched by your education
is learning to join up the dots that you didn't even know were there. — Nick Hornby

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it - just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her. — Alain De Botton

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. — Marcelene Cox

Video marketing is the most effective way for you to get someone's attention and engage them for a substantial period of time. Keeping someone engaged is the best and quickest way to gain their trust. Gaining trust is the only way to convert your audience into happy, long-term clients/customers/subscribers. — David Grimes

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. — Aristotle.

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research. — Amar Bose

Sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship. — Janeane Garofalo

Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest. — Raymond L. Atkins

You kissed me to prove a point?" A ghost of a smile appeared. "Felt like it was the quickest way to prove the point. — J. Lynn

You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof. — Zeno Of Elea

For these reasons they should not hesitate to exchange peace for war. If wise men remain quiet, while they are not injured, brave men abandon peace for war when they are injured, returning to an understanding on a favourable opportunity: in fact, they are neither intoxicated by their success in war, nor disposed to take an injury for the sake of the delightful tranquility of peace. Indeed, to falter for the sake of such delights is, if you remain inactive, the quickest way of losing the sweets of repose to which you cling; while to conceive extravagant pretensions from success in war is to forget how hollow is the confidence by which you are elated. — Thucydides

The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference. — Christopher Lennertz

Go ahead. Make the midnight knock. Stand up on behalf of those you love. And, yes, stand up on behalf of those you do not. "Pray for those who hurt you" (Matt. 5:44 NCV). The quickest way to douse the fire of anger is with a bucket of prayer. Rather than rant, rave, or seek revenge, pray. Jesus did this. While hanging on the cross, he interceded for his enemies: "Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing" (Luke 23:34 MSG). Jesus, even Jesus, left his enemies in God's hands. — Max Lucado

How is it that one woman is ... enough ... for three men?" "I don't know." "She must be a very talented courtesan." "Callie." "Well, that was what she was. Wasn't it?" "Yes." "How very fascinating!" She smiled brightly. "I've never met a courtesan, you know." "I could have surmised as such." "She looked just as I imagined they did! Well, she was rather prettier." Ralston's eyes darted around the room as though he was looking for the quickest escape route. "Callie. Wouldn't you rather gamble than talk about courtesans? — Sarah MacLean

Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead? — Robert Jordan

Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment. — Yehuda Berg

The quickest solution to a problem is found on our knees. HS/el — Evinda Lepins

The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake? Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel. — Kim Harrison

The leadings of the Holy Spirit will help you to achieve your goals in the quickest way. — Sunday Adelaja

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of. — Stephen King

You keep telling me to be glad for what we had while we had it. That the brightest flame burns quickest. Which means you saw us as a candle. And I saw us as the sun. — Pleasefindthis

Good advice, if there's any good in suffering. Quickest is best when trouble blocks the way. — Sophocles

God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely. — David Platt

Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success — Donald Clark

That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest. — Miranda July

The quickest way to get a mans attention, is to no longer want it. — Candace Mumford

At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers. — Michael Owen

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out. — Gabrielle Union

He also knew the quickest way to win a fight was to avoid one in the first place. — Elizabeth Hunter

The quickest way to get over something you loved and lost is to get another one. — Karen Tenerowicz

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.' — Billy Gardell

The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready. — E.B. White

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. — John Updike

It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable. — Neale Donald Walsch

Seeing Michaels treat his dog like that was the equivalent of watching how a new love interest interacted with your kids. He was amazing with Bookem and it was obvious Book liked him right back. It pulled at Judge's heart. Food wasn't the quickest way to his heart, although it helped, but Bookem was. Most men feared him and didn't want him anywhere around. Judge would simply fuck them quickly and send them on their way. Michaels was not the norm. He was partner material. Judge turned on the taps and grimaced at his next thought. Michaels was going to make some man very happy one day. Judge — A.E. Via

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket. — Will Rogers

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt. — Josh Kaufman

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love. — Cassia Leo

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. — Katharine Hepburn

We discover the vast difference between living and feeling alive when we discover inspiration." The quickest way to true happiness is not by ambling and obsessing about the limited pursuit of happiness, but by the immediate and actionable pursuit to be inspired. — Elaina Marie

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. — John Ruskin

The quickest and easiest way to improve your health and mood is by taking omega 3 supplements, in the form of fish oils or flaxseed. Add a good general multivitamin and mineral daily as well, as this will ensure that any trace deficiencies causing health or mood problems are addressed. — Liz Miller

I have learned to enjoy the ups for what they are, because those are the moments that feel like they go by the quickest. — Puff Daddy

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it. — Duane Michals

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted. — Mary Stewart

The quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal. — James Jones

Outside the cage, in the bullshit society we've created for ourselves, the truth is sometimes hard to see. But inside the octagon, with a crowd screaming for blood, and the smell of sweat and fear in the air, the truth is facing you, as clear as day. If you're the fastest, the quickest, the smartest, and you don't lose your cool, you'll survive. You'll be the victor. — Ozlo Grey

I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable. — Justin Bieber

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds. — Peter Hargreaves

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work. — Wayne Gretzky

I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer. That maybe time just moves the quickest at the end. — Jasmine Warga

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor. — Kurt Vonnegut

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest. — Mark Twain

That the quickest relief will come in forgetting. — Christina Baker Kline

That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter. — Ryan Lochte

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health. — Louise Hay

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species. — Alessandra Torre

Setting her jaw, Whitney turned left. "This is a one-way street." He looked around helplessly. "Didn't you see the sign?" "I know it's a one-way street," she muttered and pressed harder on the gas. "It's also the quickest way across town." "Oh, Jesus. — Nora Roberts

The quickest way to detect error in analogy is to carry it out as far as it will go - and further. Every analogy will break down somewhere. Any analogy if carried out far enough becomes absurd. — Henry Hazlitt

What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results. — Michael Scott

And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them. — Robert Jordan

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box. — James Galway

Countries rush to war thinking it is the quickest, easiest solution to conflict, only to find themselves still entrenched years later, suffering more losses than they expected and asking themselves, bewildered, "How did we get here?" There is no "winning" a war. — Joseph Sebarenzi

The quickest and healthiest way to move on is to own it so you can disown it! Travel lightly! EL — Evinda Lepins

There's something so intense about watching someone when they don't know anyone's looking. All the stuff they carry around with them falls away, and you can catch the quickest glimpse of who they really are, underneath everything. — Catherine Lo

There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet. — Lisa Bloom