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Quotes About Haste

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
~ Lois Lowry
Muchos se casan aprisa que a llorar despacio van.
~ Lope de Vega
There's an unspoken irony to all of this. People wanted a speedy solution to their problems, but what id their moods had been driven down in the first place by the hurried pace of their lives? They imagined they were rushing now in order to save their lives later, but so often, later never came.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;
~ Lori Gottlieb
Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill
~ Lori Gottlieb
I followed him into the living room. His battered thrift-store entertainment center was empty and toppled in the thieves' haste to leave, as were the makeshift bricks-and-boards shelves that had held his movie and game collection. The rest of the room looked okay, or at least okay by college-bro standards. In some guys' places, you'd be hard-pressed to know if they had been ransacked or not.
~ Jim Butcher
He gets through too late who goes too fast
~ Publilius Syrus
Don't make haste because it is the invention of the devil.
~ Unknown
The man who desires to become rich, desires to become rich quickly and quickly fail if he wants to become rich quick.
~ Unknown
Fast never saw us go.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
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.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If he went any slower, it would be Monday by the time he got there," said Josh. "If he went any slower, the Malloys could be moved out and back to Ohio," Wally observed.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
~ Plato
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
I have to figure, with this many stops and starts, surely this train will pull out of the station eventually. What's the big fucking rush?
~ Rachel Cohn
Nevertheless, he didn't take offense at being an object of suspicion, because such scrutiny was a wise protocol. Ganesh Patel rarely took offense at anything; to do so was a waste of emotional energy. Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.
~ Dean Koontz
Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.
~ Dean Koontz
impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.
~ Dean Koontz
When?" "Now," he said, and took my elbow. "There is no time to lose.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ye wouldna linger to smell flowers when ye think your shit might turn to ice before ye've got it all the way out.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm a fast driver.
~ George Pelecanos
God made time, but man made haste.
~ Irish proverb
Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.
~ J. K. Rowling
Short cuts make long delays.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien