Rapidity Quotes

We've been given no reasons for the delay, so we have no explanation. But if you see the rapidity at which other legislation is rushed through, it raises questions as to how much of a priority this is. - Lisa Vetten

This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning. I shivered all over. Whom had we to deal with? No doubt some new sort of pirates, who explored the sea in their own way. Hardly had the narrow panel closed upon me, when I was enveloped in darkness. - Jules Verne

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. - Joyce Grenfell

The Winchester is by all odds the best weapon I ever had and I now use it almost exclusively. The Winchester is the best gun for any game to be found in the United States, for it is as deadly, accurate and handy as any, stands very rough usage, and is unapproachable for the rapidity of its fire and the facility with which it is loaded. - Theodore Roosevelt

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. - George Henry Lewes

The rapidity with which this has emerged over the last two to three years is probably unprecedented. When you look at the numbers, this way outstrips other so-called new infectious diseases. - Donald Low

The rapidity of particle flow alone determines power. - L. Ron Hubbard

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity. - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. - Henry Lawson

The burning question is, will there be a human influenza pandemic. On behalf of the WHO, I can tell you that there will be. The only question is the virulence and rapidity of transmission from human to human. - Michael Leavitt