Rapidity Quotes

• As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

  

  Richard Page Mr. Mister
  • Target
  • Stomach
  • Disciplines

• 'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

  

  Jane Austen
  • Force
  • Expression
  • Possess

• All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Traveling
  • Proportion
  • Rapidity

• It was the rapidity which overwhelmed him and bothered his sensibility. He had moved slowly all of his life. He was used to seeing things drawn out of themselves by temperature and light, not by harsh action.

  

  Amanda Coplin
  • Life
  • Action
  • Rapidity