We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. Arthur C. Clarke
The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching. Roh Moo-hyun
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. Leo Tolstoy
It is fast approaching the point where I don't want Adenauer to want the job. Erma Bombeck
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day. George Eliot