Quotes About Haste

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

To me, speed kills.

The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.

To me, speed is really about convenience.

I move things forward fast. Just love speed.

My speed is my greatest asset.

I learned to value speed in everything I do.

I always liked speed.

Something like speed of play can be a big deal.

Americans are too speedy.

Rush is the death of marriage.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

Mööda koridori tõtates püüdis Rothen Vinara kutse põhjusele mitte mõelda. Peagi saab ta selle niigi teada.

Qu'est-ce qui vous effraie le plus dans la pureté? — La hâte.

Rápido —volvió a incitarme Guillermo—, si no se comerá todo el Aristóteles! —¡Y morirá! —grité angustiado mientras corría a su encuentro y juntos nos poníamos a buscar. —¡No me importa que muera, el maldito! —gritaba Guillermo clavando los ojos en la oscuridad que nos rodeaba y moviéndose de un lado para otro.

What terrifies you most in purity, I asked? Haste, William answered. -- The Name of the Rose, Fifth Day, Nones

We should call on the Creator to show more modesty. He created the world in a frenzy of excitement. Instead of revising his rough drafts, he had his work printed straightaway. What a lot of contradictions there are in it. What a log of typing errors, inconsistencies in the plot, passages that are too long and wordy, characters that are entirely superfluous. But it is painful and difficult to cut and trim the living cloth of a book written and published in too much of a hurry

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.

Oh! oh! he said, with a smile; to all appearance, this is a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put themselves under shelter.