Famous quotes containing the words fast and/or action:
“Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)