My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 7:6.

Welcome to shuttle diplomacy!

-Sisco,JosephJohn
  Comment to reporters Marvin Kalb andTed Koppel on HenryA Kissinger's first trip to the Middle East after theYom KippurWar. Reported in the NewYorkTimes, 29 Oct.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

-Vaughan, Henry
  Silex Scintillans,'Man'.