Quotes About Haste

We haven't the time to take our time.

And as regards haste,' he added philosophically, 'the impression that time is quickly running out is customarily a warning signal enjoining one to reduce the pace, and proceed slowly and with due prudence.' Geralt

He flew like shit off a shovel.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

One suspects that the haste with which some performers and some writers brush aside the traditional-jazz renaissance reflects their understanding of the devastating effect that an insistence on the traditional values would have upon the world of modern jazz to which they belong

Publish glad tidings, tidings of peace; Tidings of Jesus, redemption, and release. The king's business required haste. – 1 Samuel 21:8

had to tread lightly, and with care. In my haste, I stumbled over one or two of the houseboys, who grumbled and rolled over, and once in my study, I unlocked the case that holds my Colt rifle. Unreliable as it is, it still affords the best and

vive deprisa, muere joven

You making haste haste on decay...

The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

I won't be introduced to the pudding, please,' Alice said, rather hastily, 'or we shall get no dinner at all. May I give you some?' But the Red Queen looked sulky, and growled 'Pudding—Alice: Alice—Pudding. Remove the pudding!

Quick answers often lead to quick regrets.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

We want to reorganise the world, and that makes our brains jump the gun –sometimes. You look at a newspaper headline, take in one word, and before you know it your brain says: yes, that's what it says. But it may not.

I acted hastily towards him. Haste is a poor counsellor: I acted wrongly.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

A thousand pleasant arts we'll have To add new feathers to the wings of Time, And make him smoothly haste away: We'll use him as our slave, And when we please we'll bid him stay, And clip his wings, and make him stop to view Our studies, and our follies too.

Noch hatte keine Schuld ihre Helligkeit getrübt, keine Ahnung, dass das Herz unter dem Druck des Lebens sich auf allerlei einlassen muss, was es dann später vorgibt, nicht begriffen zu haben- aber warum hat es dann so bang und hastig geschlagen?-, [...]

SERV. I see you rather seeming to hasten than hastening.

Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.

We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.

In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation.

You making haste 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.