Fast Quotes (page 32)

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• crying
• kicked
• fasting

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing. Alice Walker

• great
• enemy
• thoughts

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

• dark
• queen
• training

Cousin Mary hoped her journey through periods of dark and light was like that of a Swiss train toiling up the mountainside, in and out of tunnels but always a little farther up the hill at each emergence. But she could only hope that this was so, she did not feel it. It seemed to her that she did not advance at all and that what she was learning now was only to hold on. The Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass, she remembered, had had to run fast merely to stay where she was, but... Elizabeth Goudge

• people
• life sayings
• song

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot. Ellen DeGeneres

• age
• northeast
• ages

The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching. Roh Moo-hyun

• interest
• yearly
• thinkers

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. Haruki Murakami

• travel
• tree
• like

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. John Muir

• travel
• tree
• space

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! John Muir

• travel
• work
• play

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced. Kate Moss

• song
• rock
• disco

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm. Giorgio Moroder

• change
• my mother
• amazing

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change. Jeanne Moreau

• moving
• writing
• science

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. Daniel Keys Moran

• urged
• urging
• standardization

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver. Thomas S. Monson

• life
• die
• road

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. Maria Mitchell

• food
• marketing
• chained

What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets. Heather Mills