Quotes About Haste

An unhurried morning routine at home can help your child get ready—and feel ready—for school without haste or anxiety.

Quel gallo era come una persona impaziente. Come quelle che vivono nella città, che sembrano sempre avere cosi tanto da fare da non riuscire a fare altro che preoccuparsi della propria fretta. Non era come qui nel villaggio, dove tutto avveniva con la lentezza che in fondo era quella della vita stessa. Perché la gente doveva correre quando le piante, di cui vivevano,crescevano comunque con tanta lentezza?

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Warum leben wir in solcher Hast, mit solcher Vergeudung von Leben? Wir glauben, Hungers zu sterben, bevor wir hungrig sind. Es heißt, ein Stich zur rechten Zeit erspart neun andere - also werden lieber gleich tausend Stiche gemacht, um neun für den nächsten Tag zu ersparen.

Wir haben es eilig, eine telegrafische Verbindung zwischen Maine und Texas herzustellen: aber Maine und Texas haben sich vielleicht gar nichts Wichtiges mitzuteilen?

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

fast ones, if you're impatient." She was silent a little after which she brought out: "Oh I guess it'll be fast enough!

They indeed had been wondrous for others while he was but wondrous for himself; which, however, was exactly the cause of his haste to renew the wonder by getting back, as he might put it, into his own presence. That had quickened his steps and checked his delay. If his visit was prompt it was because he had been separated so long from the part of himself that alone he now valued.

Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door! They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more. Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest; The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.

Time, time; if I but only had the time

Evil counsel travels fast.

Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.. in such a way do the days pass.. I see all that I love falling away.. books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited..

Men occassionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened. -Sir Winston Churchill

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

After a quick shower and shave, I whipped up some scrambled eggs and shoveled them into me.

Stifling an obscene oath, I went back up the steps at a run, but I was locking the stable when the horse was already at the airport with a false passport.

people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character.

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

Festina lente

Alec Mackenzie wrote, "Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.