Excessive Speed

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

“Excessive speed gets one nowhere.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“Adolescent girls were fighting a mother’s interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother’s excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.”
—Terri Apter (20th century)

“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)