The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

I don't mind my team being less physically strong in exchange for more mobility and nimble, swift transitions.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.