Ten Fastest Times

Famous quotes containing the words ten, fastest and/or times:

“Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
—Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)

“Government by average opinion is merely a circuitous method of going to the devil; those who profess to lead but in fact slavishly follow this average opinion are simply the fastest runners and the loudest squeakers of the herd which is rushing blindly down to its destruction.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)