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Quotes About Haste

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.
~ Scott Rudin
Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey.
~ P.C. Cast
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I started m-p-h-ing it homewards in a thrice
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We're all alike when we get bustled. We don't know what we're doing, and by the time we've put our hands up and got into shape, why, it's all over, and there you are. Don't you worry yourself, sir.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
~ Chinese proverb
The only reason we were married in such haste was that my mother begged me not to marry Andrew at all. One of you in a marriage has to be soft , she said. One of you has to know how to say, Have it your way . That's not going to be you, dear, so it might as well be the man.
~ Chris Cleave
Hey," Abby said as they barreled past her, holding a large wooden spoon slick with some kind of sauce. "Do you want some...
~ Christa Faust
La culpabilité de Qadesh l'amenait à se poser des questions auxquelles il ne devait pas répondre dans la précipitation et sans preuve. Un feu étrange, parfois insupportable, le tourmentait: pressé de découvrir la vérité, ne risquait-il pas de la dénaturer en brûlant les étapes?
~ Christian Jacq
The haste of Europeans has no place in Tibet. We must learn patience if we wished to arrive at the goal.
~ Heinrich Harrer
What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.
~ Henry Chadwick
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Thare iz sich a thing az being alwus too quick--i am one ov that kind miself, i alwus miss a rale rode train bi being thare a haff an our too soon.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
And now, haste, haste, haste.
~ lewis c s v
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."
~ Lewis Carroll
"Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! Faster!"
~ Lewis Carroll
We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.
~ Astrid Berges-Frisbey
We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.
~ Jaime Pressly
White dude speed' is the kind of quickness that you see from a guy who's trying to beat the 'Do Not Walk' sign across the street. They're moving but not fast enough to scuff their boat shoes.
~ Sean Evans
In a moment she'd be gone, and then he could run to Foeslayer, warn her, and send her flying back to her room as fast as possible.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It is a dangerous discovery, because they are going to disregard many vital things in their haste to catch up.
~ Paul Bowles
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
~ Theodore Roethke
Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.
~ Jeanette Winterson