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Quotes About Haste

El que corre corre hacia la muerte, que a veces se comporta como una verdadera haragana y se sienta simplemente a esperar a que el cristiano trabaje por ella y tome un revólver el apurado y se despache de un tiro cualquiera en el corazón.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Tôi ?ang s?ng trong m?t th? gi?i v?i vã t?i n?i ng??i ta s?n sàng tr? ti?n cho c?nh t??ng b?t ??ng.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
The illusion of speed is the belief that it saves time. It looks simple at first sight: finish something in two hours instead of three, gain an hour. It's an abstract calculation, though, done as if each hour of the day were like an hour on the clock, absolutely equal. But haste and speed accelerate time, which passes more quickly, and two hours of hurry shorten a day. Every minute is torn apart by being segmented, stuffed to bursting. You can pile a mountain of things into an hour.
~ Frédéric Gros
When you hurry, time is filled to bursting, like a badly-arranged drawer in which you have stuffed different things without any attempt at order.
~ Frédéric Gros
Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit of being ten minutes too early.
~ bovee christian nestell ix
no meter la pata debido a las prisas, no seguir siempre las mismas rutinas y, cuando hubiera que mentir, contar mentiras lo más sencillas que se pudiera
~ Haruki Murakami
As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
~ Heather O'Neill
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions
~ Sophocles
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I was forever late, in a rush, my foot heavy on the pedal, haunted by something I'd forgotten to do, to pay, to sign. I ate on the run, balanced hot coffee while shifting in traffic, and dreamed of being organized, believing I could be if only I had the right containers.
~ Stephanie Kegan
When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!
~ Laurence Sterne
In his opinion, all the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
~ Michael Ende, Momo
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
~ Tacitus
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
~ Terry Pratchett, The Truth
I quickly crossed the room
~ Michael Connelly
Like everything else I'd seen at Xymos, it was jerry-built, half-baked, concocted in a hurry to solve present problems and never a thought to the future.
~ Michael Crichton
All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
~ Michael Ende
The merchants were already regretting their haste in contacting the albino. They had a feeling that not only were the legends true—but they did not do justice to the strange-eyed man they wished to employ.
~ Michael Moorcock
De Sooner De Better De Later De Letter De Madder I Getter
~ Beverly Cleary
flank speed
~ Bob Mayer
Festina lente may well be his motto
~ Bram Stocker
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
~ T.S. Eliot
communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.
~ Kapka Kassabova
The sooner, the better!
~ Franklin W. Dixon