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Quotes About Haste

But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight.
~ Dawn French
Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.
~ Deb Caletti
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Most people don't live; they just race.
~ Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs
Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology rushed us ever forward, and simple civility - a certain kindness and care - got sacrificed.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Delay also has consequences," Kieri said. "Haste brings one set of hazards; delay, another.
~ Elizabeth Moon
I do wish you would not be so precipitate; just look at you, you are bleeding all over the antiquities
~ Elizabeth Peters
It was all quite easy and simple. No need to hustle, as she had been doing till dinner. An immense leisure was now to be hers for ever, and it was entirely her own silly fault if she upset it by rushing at things.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.
~ Allan Stratton
All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: One, are we promoting the rule of law and the Constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the institutions?
~ Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
too late, so Ostin came with us. As we were leaving the hotel
~ Richard Paul Evans
Mrs. Givings's cosmetics seemed always to have been applied in a frenzy of haste, of impatience to get the whole silly business over and done with, and she was constantly in motion, a trim, leather-skinned woman in her fifties whose eyes expressed a religious belief in the importance of keeping busy.
~ Richard Yates
Don't be in such a rush. It just slows you down.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Tómate tu tiempo-dije con ligereza, cabreada y nerviosa a la vez. -Jenks y yo vamos a recurrir al plan B. -¿El plan B?-dijo Ivy-. ¿Cuál es el plan B? Jenks se puso rojo. -Coge el pez y sal pitando.
~ Kim Harrison
Racing their way somewhere they no doubt called important.
~ Yvonne Lehman
Sin in haste, repent at leisure.")
~ Deepak Chopra
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
~ William Hazlitt
He scurried off faster than if he'd woken up from a one-night stand with Lindsay Lohan.
~ Jennifer Coburn
Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you're lagging, I may remember him!
~ Emily Dickinson
I have no time for babbling foolishness." "Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.
~ Eoin Colfer
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.
~ Erich Fromm
When I find a trustworthy man, he lacks ambition and scorns the apparatus of power; and when a man appears ready to jump at the first office I offer him, his haste unnerves me.
~ Amin Maalouf
Remembering what a disagreeable experience madness had been, she averted her thoughts with haste.
~ Amy Witting
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
~ Ethel Rosenberg