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Quotes About Haste

Perhaps I've been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.
~ Cecelia Ahern
We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.
~ Romario
A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting - so fanciful are men! - he hastened on...
~ Thomas Hardy
los años ricos en acontecimientos transcurren con mayor lentitud que los años pobres, vacíos y carentes de peso, que el viento barre y que pasan volando. Lo
~ Thomas Mann
Poetry has to be as hasty and rough as eating, sleep or sex.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Let's get our things afore either one of them changes their mind." Cass
~ Kathryne Kennedy
It would be easy to get the idea from all this that Mimosa is some kind of genius, a veritable Einstein among vegetables. But there's no evidence for this at all. The reason all this work has focused on Mimosa is simply that its ability to move (and fast) makes it a convenient experimental subject, which in turn reveals just what a hasty bunch we are; other plants may well be smarter than Mimosa , but until very recently biologists had generally decided that it would take too long to find out.
~ Ken Thompson
Over a hundred years earlier, Thoreau demonstrated similar concern, famously writing in Walden that "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.
~ Cal newport
Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.
~ Carl Jung
La strana felicità che provavano…quella fretta di far conoscere il proprio cuore l'uno all'altra…una fretta da amanti che è già un dono, il primo, il dono dell'anima prima di quello del corpo. "Conoscimi, guardami. Io sono così. Ecco come ho vissuto, ecco cosa ho amato. E tu? E tu, amore mio?
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Cómo había que apresurarse en vivir, Dios mío, en agradar a los hombres, en amar... El dinero, los vestidos y los coches bonitos, ¿de qué servía todo eso sin un hombre en tu vida, un pretendiente, un joven amante?
~ Irene Nemirovsky
He notes the depressing haste with which the successful, in the sexual sphere as in all others, segment themselves from the failures.
~ Irvine Welsh
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
~ Juvenal
Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
~ Paul Cezanne
Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel
~ Rachel Caine
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
~ Duke of Wellington
Barry was gone in a flurry of papers blown off tabletops.
~ Susan Griffith
There was something different in his voice, as if he were hurrying me along, moving me past something before I saw it.
~ Susanna Moore
Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.
~ Suzanne Collins
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Dissociated, I follow this body in its reckless haste.
~ Taylor Patton
Bir treni kaç?rmak ancak peÅŸinden koÅŸarsan?z ac? verici olur.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Es el placer de asombrar y la satisfacción orgullosa de nunca asombrarse. Un dandi puede ser un hombre hastiado, tal vez un doliente; pero, en este último caso, sonreirá como el lacedemonio al morderlo el zorro. Se ve que, por ciertos lados, el dandismo linda con el espiritualismo y el estoicismo. Pero un dandi nunca puede ser un hombre vulgar.
~ Charles Baudelaire
is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?
~ Charles Kingsley