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  • Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

    Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.126, Elsevier
  • Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

    Running   Hero   Boys  
  • Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.

  • But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

    Believe   Ties   Track  
  • People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

  • I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

  • We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

    Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”
  • That should be the anti-speeding advert. It should be footage of Richard Hammond trying to remember his own wedding day.

    Funny   Humor   Thinking  
    "Mock the Week". Comedy, Game-Show, (2005– ).
  • I feel the fear touches on something deeper. A sense perhaps of, "My life is speeding past me and I can't get a handle on it."

    Past   Life Is   Deeper  
    "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.
  • The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

    Stress   Cities   Car  
    "Metropolis II: A Kinetic Sculpture That Circulates 100,000 Miniature Cars Every Hour", www.thisiscolossal.com. March 3, 2014.
  • We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

  • Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected Roman Empire. For 30 years I have been proclaiming this tremendous event over the air and in print.

    Religious   Air   Years  
  • Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

    Space   Doe   Photograph  
  • A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

    Running   Cat   Sheep  
    "Beyond Black". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2005.
  • I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.

  • Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

    "Annals of Medicine" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. July 29, 2013.
  • We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

    Horse   Fate   Two  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

    John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”
  • In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

    MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”
  • In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

  • If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.' 'Handy, that,' said Will.

    Arrows   Would Be   Steps  
  • Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

    Yellow   Light   Lessons  
  • One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

    Worry   Needs   Machines  
    Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.639, Simon and Schuster
  • The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

    Knowing   People   Haste  
  • Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

    Reading   Gossip   Crowds  
  • The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

    Tunnels   Light   Track  
    The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8
  • I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind Like a hardbound brick of win. Story bling. Wanna swipe that thing Cause you see that boy is speeding Right through the book he’s reading. I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading. Wanna curl up with that for ages, All thousand pages. Reviewers tried to warn me. But with that plot you hooked Me like Bradley. Ooh, crack that fat spine. You know I wanna make you mine. This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella.

    Lying   Book   Reading  
  • It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the basis of Futurist theory, in no way required one to paint nothing but speeding cars or ballerinas in action; for a person who is seated, or an inanimate object, though apparently static, could be considered dynamically and suggest dynamic forms. I may mention as an example the 'Portrait of Madame S.' (1912) and the 'Seated Woman' (1914).

    Car   Mind   Research  
    "Letters of the great artists". Book by Richard Friedenthal, p. 248, 1963.
  • Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

  • At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

    Hurt   May   Marathon  
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