Quotes About Hasten

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

Lament who will, in fruitless tears, The speed with which our moments fly; I sigh not over vanished years, But watch the years that hasten by.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

I guess they didn't have those in the Middle Ages, did they? (Taryn) Middle Ages? Lady, you use very strange words. (Sparhawk) Yeah, okay, let me not tarry. I shall dress forthwith and hasten myself back to thee or thou or whatever it is. (Taryn) She's a strange demoiselle, but a highly amusing one. (Sparhawk)

By the fall of 1775 no one in Congress labored more ardently than Adams to hasten the day when America would be separate from Great Britain.

To put God to the question in any other way than by saying, What wilt thou have me to do? is an attempt to compel God to declare himself, or to hasten his work. This probably was the sin of Judas. It is presumption of a kind similar to the making of a stone into bread. It is, as it were, either a forcing of God to act where he has created no need for action, or the making of a case wherein he shall seem to have forfeited his word if he does not act.

She hurried after him

It lies in the power of man, either permissively to hasten, or actively to shorten, but not to lengthen or extend the limits of his natural life. He only (if any) hath the art to lengthen out his taper that puts it to the best advantage.

Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.

At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time.

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?

While the inner lamp of jewels is still alight, hasten to trim its wick and provide it with oil.

I'm going with you," he said. She frowned. "No, thank you." "I insist." "I don't need your services, Mr. Rohan." Cam could think of a number of services she was clearly in need of, most of which would be a pleasure for him to provide. "Obviously it will be to everyone's benefit for you to retrieve Ramsay and leave London as quickly as possible. I consider it my civic duty to hasten your departure.

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.