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Quotes About Hurry

I'm always late for things and always feel like I'm rushing.
~ Poppy Delevingne
You read things in the papers but I never really expected Barcelona to choose me. It all happened in a hurry.
~ Quique Setien
Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
~ A.A. Milne
because life is short and you too are thirsty.
~ Adrienne Rich
But this press of time—take it as a little thing next to what endures. All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
At once the senior pilot arose in his mighty bulk and began to struggle into his coat, with awe-inspiring upheavals. The stranger and I hurried impulsively to his assistance, and directly we laid our hands on him he became perfectly quiescent. We had to raise our arms very high, and to make efforts. It was like caparisoning a docile elephant. With a Thanks, gentlemen, he dived under and squeezed himself through the door in a great hurry.
~ Joseph Conrad
Scuse me—gotta hurry home—left the chillun on the stove.
~ Walt Kelly
In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.
~ Wernher von Braun
Hood, meanwhile, was virtually tripping over his foot in the rush
~ Wiley Sword
The air currents should take you to the wall in, I don't know, ten minutes or so, but if you're really in a hurry, take off your clothes and throw them away from you; for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
~ Daniel Keys Moran
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
~ James Joyce
he seemed in a great hurry, and anxious to get away." I have no doubt but that that was the case.
~ Agatha Christie
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
~ Agnes de Mille
Dee hurriedly wrapped both wounds with bits of cloth to stem the bleeding.
~ Alan Gratz
Get me to the church on time!
~ Alan Jay Lerner
Patience is about responsibility—for your emotional response to situations, and for the situations themselves. Wait—and be saved like a bird from a snare; Hurry, and usher your soul to despair. —YOSEF QIMHI (C. 1160–1235)
~ Alan Morinis
I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.
~ Alec Baldwin
Without another word, she hurried up the stairs. I hoped Jason had locked the bathroom door. Knowing Tiffany, she was hoping for an "accidental" locker room preview. Oops, sorry! Thought this was my bathroom. I'm always confusing the left side of the hallway with the right. Silly me.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
You made good time from Portland." In seconds, she shunted away the brief flicker of remembered heat from her gaze and became as coolly polite as her downstairs neighbor. "I was afraid you'd be ready to string me up if I didn't hurry." "I
~ RaeAnne Thayne
I should hurry, then, if I were you," said Blackberry. "The sun will be down soon." "Hah!" said Bigwig. "If I meet a stoat, it'd better look out, that's all. I'll bring you one back tomorrow, shall I?
~ Richard Adams
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.
~ Karen Blixen
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
~ Ian Anderson
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
~ Zig Ziglar