When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.
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Related Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love ea... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Run fast! Run swift! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Right now it rolls the eyes back in your head, it's so fast. It's too fast. There's no need is us go... MARK MARTIN I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love... C. JOYBELL C. I don't like big cities. I want to stay in a small town where you know everyone. The big city is too... BEN BRANCHFIELD Not so fast, not so high, without my wings, I cannot fly... KELLY STRACKE Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies,
There to dispose this treasure in mine arms
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I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
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PATRICK NESS Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But th... T. J. MILLER I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them. LARA FLYNN BOYLE If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn... BOB GREEN My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision. WILLIAM SAROYAN My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy. MARKUS ZUSAK I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls a... GAYLE FORMAN PH is so fast. Those running backs, their feet never stop moving. JACK TURNER And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because... ERYKAH BADU When the weaver bird flies, nobody talks; when the busy bee flies, no one will make comments... But ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR My teammates give me a hard time, telling me that's why I'm so fast, from having to run away from th... DREW HAYES You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine w... JOHNNY CASH They became too popular, too fast. DAVID FREI In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind y... NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI You are my heart.. it beats slow when you are too far.. beats fast when you are near... stops when w... NERISSA IRVING You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work. HANK STRAM I don't know why I run so fast. I just run. WILMA RUDOLPH I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so no... NATE ROBINSON For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ... ZARA LARSSON You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your... C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift... MICKEY ROONEY DJs nowadays play too fast, ... They never slow it down enough so you can actually talk to the girls... GEORGE ROGERS I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast a... ABRAHAM LINCOLN You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out wha... JOHNNY CASH "I know!... You are not suspended between Light and Word anymore but..... your naked wings still gro... ANCA MIHAELA BRUMA They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that t... C. JOYBELL C. She can certainly beat me. But she has never run as fast as my best time in a half marathon. DANIELLE MOONEY We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray... RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so ... STEVE YZERMAN In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it. UDAY KOTAK True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast. LLOYD ALEXANDER When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I
do not fast. So likewise you, what... SAINT AMBROSE We were just caught up in the moment. They come at you so hard. We were just trying to play too fast... DOUG SCHAUER I've got a little bit of a burst but I can't run a 4.2 (40-second dash) that's for darn sure. You se... DOUG FLUTIE I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast. CARL LEWIS I'm going so fast, my feet haven't even really hit the ground. BOB TOLEDO I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without c... PABLO NERUDA Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of her... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON We watch film and he's running past guys like they're standing still. But that's one of my assets th... DARRENT WILLIAMS Dear Stephanie, I hardly know where to begin. I am on a monstrous machine that is taking me thousand... DEAR PAUL
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Where people fail is t... ANAïS NIN The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. ANAïS NIN She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t... ANAïS NIN For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ... ANAïS NIN The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. ANAïS NIN When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h... ANAïS NIN You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence... ANAïS NIN Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m... ANAïS NIN A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o... ANAïS NIN I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo... ANAïS NIN You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever... ANAïS NIN In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p... ANAïS NIN We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are ANAïS NIN Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are... ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp... ANAïS NIN I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. ANAïS NIN Pain is something to master, not to wallow in. ANAïS NIN [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful... ANAïS NIN Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. ANAïS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAïS NIN I write emotional algebra. ANAïS NIN She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ... ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ANAIS NIN The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ... ANAIS NIN How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it... ANAIS NIN Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o... ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ANAIS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ANAIS NIN There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ANAIS NIN What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ANAIS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ANAIS NIN Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d... ANAIS NIN