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Quotes About Haste

Sequels are desperate.
~ Adam McKay
Hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time.
~ Robert Greene
I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.
~ Robert Harris
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
~ Robert Jordan
Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in. - Loial
~ Robert Jordan
No comprendí entonces lo estúpidas que son las suposiciones apresuradas.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
They are in such a hurry to make money that they eventually lose both time and money," I added. "They want to do things on their own rather than invest in a little study.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
They are in such a hurry to make money that they eventually lose both time and money
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point
~ La Fontaine
Haste makes waste, but a lazy man'd rather get his work done fast than do it himself...all it saves is time, son. And what good is time, with nothing to do? You want to sit and twiddle your thumbs, all these stormy winter days?
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
But I don't arrange a very good abduction, I'm afraid. In my haste to seize you and carry you off to the ends of the earth, I seem to have forgotten a few of the important articles. Such as baggage." "It was a perfect abduction," she declared. "Pray do not carp about the details.
~ Laura Kinsale
All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature.
~ Lauren Willig
Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
~ Aesop
The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.
~ Alan Cohen
I do not 'gallivant,' Truzenzuzex commented primly. I plan in haste.
~ Alan Dean Foster
And out the door she flew
~ Don Freeman
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."12
~ Donald Altman
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
~ Victor Hugo
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!
~ Omar Khayyam
Angry walking sure gets you places in a hurry.
~ Jenny Han
In such haste was she and so impatient of delay that you would fancy her on the eve of her departure. As she was always ready, death could not find her unprepared.
~ Jerome
As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH.
~ Erik Larson