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Quotes About Haste

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.
~ Mark Lawrenson
Come; come! He who cannot act must make haste to sleep!
~ George MacDonald
All he wanted was to get home quickly, and then sit down and be quiet.
~ George Orwell
Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best.
~ George Orwell
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
We rush to escape what makes us anxious, which makes us anxious, and so we rush some more.
~ Sarah Wilson
In haste, mistakes cascade. With deliberation, mistakes instruct."[
~ Scott Berkun
Well has it been said: the man obsessed Is a cock of the walk in a hurry towards the worst.
~ Seamus Heaney
Move too quickly and time will pass you by.
~ Al Barry
Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.
~ Craig Reucassel
The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.
~ David Coleman
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
~ Edmund Spenser
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
~ Matthew Henry
Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
~ Marta Perry
driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
~ William Shakespeare
The city, compelling as it was, felt like a glamorous couture dress I had bought in haste but that didn't quite fit me after all.
~ Jojo Moyes
A person in such a hurry seldom gets good results
~ Jon J. Muth
The world's clock had run down, and haste was irrelevant.
~ Jonathan Maberry
a town partly destroyed by fire and deserted in haste." Here, sometime around or after 1200 BCE, "loose objects were left abandoned in the courtyards and valuables were hidden in the ground. Bronze arrowheads - one of them found stuck in the side of a building - and numerous lead sling bullets scattered all over the place are eloquent proof of war.
~ Eric H. Cline
Die Monate haben es eilig. Die Jahre haben es eiliger. Und die Jahrzehnte haben es am eiligsten. Nur die Erinnerungen habben Geduld mit uns.
~ Erich Kastner
Vivimos de prisa, y, como nuestra existencia es cada día más corta en razón á la celeridad con que caminamos, naturalmente queremos abarcar mucho y muchas cosas en breve tiempo, siempre ante el temor de llegar demasiado tarde y de que otros nos lleven la delantera.
~ Benito Perez Galdos