Excessive Speed

Famous quotes containing the words excessive speed, excessive and/or speed:

    Excessive speed gets one nowhere.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.

    The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it—the speed of his acceptance.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)