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Quotes About Haste

Come, let's to bed,Says Sleepyhead;Tarry awhile, says Slow;Put on the pot,Says Greedy-gut,We'll sup before we go.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
~ Michael Leunig
her chest began to rise and fall with a quickening of her breath, and her breath quickened because her heart fluttered—as if with her haste.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
In haste, MF.
~ Frank Herbert
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
~ Cleopatra
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Let's be quick. I should like to catch up to them before they marry and I am forced to make Suzette a widow.
~ Lynsay Sands
We really only trust conscious decision making. But there are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE.
~ Samuel Johnson
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
~ Jean Paul
Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.
~ Robert E. Murray
If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?
~ Guy Finley
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
~ Abraham Cowley
Like a spear hurtling through darkness He was always in such a hurry To find a target to stop him Like a young lion trying out its roar At the far edge of the den The roar inside him was even louder
~ Edward Hirsch
While life is being postponed, it rushes past.
~ Elaine Fantham
Por outro lado, não estava realmente deprimida. Sentia-me, em vez disso, como se tivesse sido largada num lugar e não fosse capaz de me reencontrar: angustiada, isto é, com os movimento demasiado rápidos e pouco coordenados, com a pressa de quem procura por todo o lado e não tem tempo a perder.
~ Elena Ferrante
If I should never see him again—she thought, Blessed Mother, how could I live, and yet it was the fear of seeing him again which had driven her to this desperate haste. The fear that if he were there so near her she
~ Anya Seton
The reason that I was so quick was because I was impatient. I couldn't wait to hit the next shot.
~ Alex Higgins
We're just moving along as quick as possible.
~ Mark Russell
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
~ Dolly Parton
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
the way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
~ Sophocles