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How to use the word Swift in a Sentence? Page #9

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The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

– Ecclesiastes 9:11

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Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

– Henry van Dyke

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It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.

– Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929

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In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

– George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

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Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

– Author Unknown

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

– Herodotus

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

– Henry Van Dyke

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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

– William Shakespeare

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

– Henri Frdric Amiel

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Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.

– Computer Museum

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Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift.

– Homer

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Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

– Seneca

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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

– Ecclesiastes 911 Bible

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I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

– Marie Curie

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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.

– Bob Dylan

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Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

– Arthur Guiterman

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You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

– William E. Holler

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