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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Only light, or other waves that have no intrinsic mass, can move at the speed of light.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.” Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
“I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” Alice Walker, The Color Purple
“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.” William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
“He who rushes ahead doesn't go far.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who,...” René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
“And we are going forward with research on a new Orient Express that could, by the end of the next decade, take off from Dulles Airport, accelerate up to 25 times the speed of sound, attaining low Earth orbit or flying to Tokyo within 2 hours.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness...” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
“Cars, in theory, give you a terrifically fast method of traveling from place to place. Traffic jams, on the other hand, give you a terrific opportunity to stay still.” Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
“In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting, and so they left him to come on later, while Bagheera hurried forward, at the quick panther-canter.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.” William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Have you ever noticed that when you're drivin', anyone goin' slower than you is an idiot? And anyone goin' faster than you is a maniac?” George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“He moves fastest who moves alone.” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
“This suggests cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings).” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Celerity is never more admir'd than by the negligent.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
“I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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