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... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience. -- Kelly Miller
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise. -- Pliny the Younger
Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine. -- Sara Coleridge
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. -- John Newton
She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost. -- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start. -- Leonard Cohen
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn. -- Anna Akhmatova
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. -- Walter Pater
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. -- Samuel Johnson
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream. -- Gautama Buddha
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality. -- John Philip Sousa
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. -- Edvard Munch
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. -- John Quincy Adams
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation. -- Samuel Johnson

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