“The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.”

“Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.”

“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”

“Pestel was a very forceful person and quickly saw the power of system dynamics.”

“Songs are like flowers / they come up spontaneously / they are like dreams / and we only have to / write them quickly / because then they fade away / and we will not remember them”

“The market can quickly seize up. Prices don't adjust in a smooth continuous fashion, but instead abruptly reconfigure themselves, like the earth's crust during an earthquake.”

“Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.”

“He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?”

“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”

“Mood swings quickly spread like a virus in the spiritual world. Only mentally able individuals are welcome at this last stage of life.”