Quotes About Hasty

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

All nations believe the gods to be governed by a king; for men, who have made the gods after their own image, are ever hasty in ascribing to these celestial beings, human manners and human institutions.

And I am aware of her failings as well. She was impatient, she did not tolerate foolishness or indecision. Too often she did not listen to the views of others, and she was hasty in her judgment, but when she was wrong she apologized." His voice softened and he blinked rapidly. "She was a creature of high idealism

She needed to keep an open mind. She might have been hasty in dismissing the entire male gender.

Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed everything away. She had, in effect, turned the hose on herself. "Of course I forgive you." As eager to reconcile as she has been in the schoolyard and in her first marriage too. Only to think that now she should not have been so hasty. Forgiveness was the premature end to the story. She had skipped to the last page instead of reading the book through.

An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and remover ... but the exercised fortune maketh the able man.

But at present this caution against a too hasty judgment interests me more in relation to Mr. Casaubon than to his young cousin. If

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

I began to feel that the old Venice of song and story had departed forever. But I was too hasty. In a few minutes we swept gracefully out into the Grand Canal, and under the mellow moonlight the Venice of poetry and romance stood revealed.

As society, we haven't quite figured out what a new structure for meals would look like that isn't just a hasty sandwich in the car on the way to something more important.

I'm sick to death—Oh when shall I get loose From this vain world, the abode of guilt and sorrow! —And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in On my departing soul. Alas! I fear 95 I've been too hasty. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!— The best may err, but you are good, and—oh!  [Dies.]

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

I'm too impatient.

I'm impatient.

I'm impatient sometimes.

I'm very impatient.

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

That was the problem with being desperate. It always made you sloppy.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.

I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.