140 Fasting Quotes

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Famous Fasting Quotes

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson

Tempus fugit (time flies). — Ovid

The happier time, the quicker it passes — Pliny The Younger

How time flies when one has fun! - Samuel Beckett

How time flies when one has fun! — Samuel Beckett

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. — Art Buchwald

Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last — Tom Petty

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less. — Jeremy Clarkson

Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy? — Rob Dyrdek

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. — Art Buchwald

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter. — Tupac Shakur

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. — Ivan Turgenev

Relentless Forward Motion! — Tom Riley

Live fast, have fun, be a bit mischievous. — Louis Tomlinson

Short Fasting Quotes

  • Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
  • The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. — Hippocrates
  • Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. — Jimmy Buffett
  • Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry. — Wyatt Earp
  • Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
  • God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
  • Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. — Wyatt Earp
  • A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. — Ovid
  • Live fast, fight hard, no regrets! — John Cena
  • How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray. — Demetri Martin

Fasting Image Quotes

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti quote

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. - Lou Gerstner quote

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. — Lou Gerstner

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club. - Edwin Meese quote

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club. — Edwin Meese

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth - Mumia Abu-Jamal quote

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within. - Paracelsus quote

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within. — Paracelsus

Fasting quote If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast. - Amber Valletta quote

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast. — Amber Valletta

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. - St. Jerome quote

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. — St. Jerome

For fast-acting relief try slowing down. - Lily Tomlin quote

For fast-acting relief try slowing down. — Lily Tomlin

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. - Bob Hope quote

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. — Bob Hope

We're all just kids who grew up way too fast. - Luke Hemmings quote

We're all just kids who grew up way too fast. — Luke Hemmings

My idea of fast food is a mallard. - Ted Nugent quote

My idea of fast food is a mallard. — Ted Nugent

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him. - Bobby Robson quote

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him. — Bobby Robson

Fasting quote If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Fast Life Quotes

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. — Milarepa

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. — Eddie Cantor

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. — Eddie Cantor

Fasting quote If everything is under control, you are not moving fast enough
If everything is under control, you are not moving fast enough

Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale

The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. — Frank Iero

Man shall not live by bread alone. - Matthew McConaughey

Man shall not live by bread alone. — Matthew McConaughey

Fasting quote Be Slow to criticize and Fast to Appreciate.
Be Slow to criticize and Fast to Appreciate.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. — Augustus William Hare

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free. — Vin Diesel

When you lose someone you love, you don’t think the same way. And that’s why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast. — Paul Pogba

Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos. — Carlo Petrini

Hold Fast Quotes

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. — Ulysses S. Grant

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. — Bill W.

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else. — Al-Ghazali

Fasting quote If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. — Frederick Buechner

In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other. — Jane Frances de Chantal

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future. — John F. Kennedy

Fasting quote Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once a while, you could miss it.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once a while, you could miss it.

I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. — John F. Kennedy

Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances. — F. F. Bosworth

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. — Andrei Sakharov

Running Fast Quotes

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster. — Eric Liddell

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time. — Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil

Fasting quote Love comes slow and it goes so fast ...
Love comes slow and it goes so fast ...

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. — Julie Burchill

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. — John Bingham

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. — George Orwell

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it. - Arjen Robben

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it. — Arjen Robben

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast. — Carol Kane

If you're chasing your dream, you're not running fast enough. Run faster — Puff Daddy

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness. — Tom Brady

Fast Food Quotes

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken - Colonel Sanders

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken — Colonel Sanders

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. — George Carlin

Fasting quote I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars, the rest I just squandered.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars, the rest I just squandered.

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. — Eric Schlosser

Hell is other people at breakfast. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people at breakfast. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish — Jamie Oliver

If it’s work, do it fast. If it’s food, eat it little by little. — Filipino Proverbs

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained. — Nigella Lawson

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. — Andrew Weil

The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power. — Eric Schlosser

Fast Times Quotes

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. — Malcolm X

Those who do the fasting mimicking diet 3 times per year have a biological age that is 16 years younger. — Valter Longo

Fasting, or intermittent fasting, gives us an opportunity to really get all the best cells all the time and that's what we all want. — Steven Gundry

Intermittent fasting is not about starving yourself, it’s about giving your body the nutrients it needs in a limited time frame. — Eric Berg

Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence. — Sam Altman

Don’ you worry, Harry. You’ll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts — I did — still do, ’smatter of fact. — J. K. Rowling

Secret for moving fast at a startup: don't do tomorrow what could be done today. — Greg Brockman

Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart. — Margot Frank

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me. — Geddy Lee

Following intermittent fasting, with eating windows from morning till early afternoon, coupled with sun exposure before eating, can aid in adapting to new time zones. — Gary Brecka

Live Fast Quotes

If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes. — Thomas More

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much. — Dan Buettner

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. — John Derek

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. — James Dean

'Fast & Furious' is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they're doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important as the ones in front of the cameras. They are car enthusiasts. They live and breathe this world. — Laz Alonso

I don't live in the fast lane I live on the off ramp. — Fred Shero

Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. — Bill Viola

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. — Cat Stevens

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean? — Lil Wayne

Move Fast Quotes

However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all. — Mark Zuckerberg

I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it. — David Sinclair

If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes. — Mark Zuckerberg

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb — Miley Cyrus

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running. — Florence Griffith Joyner

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. — Mark Zuckerberg

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. — Elizabeth von Arnim

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast. — Susan Wojcicki

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — Elbert Hubbard

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More Fasting Quotes

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere. — Kevin Gates

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out. — John Wesley

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett

I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first. — Nat Turner

Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast. — Philip Neri

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested. — Hunter S. Thompson

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. — Eric Liddell

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