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Quotes About Hurry

As touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a prodigious hurry, they run away from each other as soon as possible. And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is— How many skulls?— the same way that whalers hail— How many barrels? And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each other's villanous likenesses.
~ Herman Melville
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.
~ Ian Mcewan
An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.
~ Frank Buckles
You – you . . .' Her words were drowned out in a flood of pain rising up within her, an anguish more thorough in shattering her than anything she'd yet suffered. She staggered back a step. Baudin's small, flat eyes held steady on her. Heboric cleared his throat. 'We'd best hurry.
~ Steven Erikson
Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.
~ B. J. Armstrong
Hurry up, before there's no more night left.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Si no creus en la vida eterna, pensa que ens hem d'afanyar. Suposo que estàs d'acord que se'ns acaba el temps.
~ Miriam Toews
Ens hem d'afanyar, va dir. Però no fugiu pas, vaig fer. No sou pas rates que s'escapen d'un edifici que crema. Es va tornar a posar a riure. Exacte, va dir. Hem triat d'anar-nos-en.
~ Miriam Toews
Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
~ Mitch Albom
Part of the problem, Mitch, is that everyone is in such a hurry," Morrie said. "People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running.
~ Mitch Albom
sent him his list of dreamy-eyed ideals along with the birthday card she'd hand made with pressed flowers and a reminder to come home for the weekend to celebrate his milestone birthday. Thirty-five. Evan strode across the marble lobby leading to his law firm's offices like a man in a hurry. In fact, he had ten minutes to spare before his next client meeting. A lot of people might use those minutes to grab a coffee, chat with a colleague or relax. Evan
~ Nancy Warren
El tiempo pasa más aprisa cuando más vacío está.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We walked through the lobby toward the dining room. "Look out!" Ashley cried. The three of us jumped aside as a woman came rushing through the dining room doors. She wore a long white fur coat and dark glasses. She didn't even see us. She was too busy muttering into a cell phone. "I wonder what her hurry is," I said. "I think she's a spy," Natasha said. "Spies always wear fur coats." I rolled my eyes at Ashley.
~ Carol Ellis
That was creepy!" Ashley gasped as we hurried through the woods. "It was," I agreed. "And just when I was starting to like him!
~ Carol Ellis
Deerfield, Massachusetts February 29, 1704 Temperature 0 degrees They crossed field after field, the Indians constantly demanding more speed. Mercy did not know why the Indians were in such a hurry. They had killed anybody who could chase them.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
HURRY, Nancy!" Hannah Gruen called anxiously. The Drews' housekeeper held the front door open as jagged lightning cut the sky. Nancy raced madly toward the door, her reddish-blond hair flying in the wind. "Made it!" she gasped, laughing, as great drops of rain pelted the driveway.
~ Carolyn Keene
Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing. Never have enough time here, always trying to make our way there. Need to have left here five minutes ago, need to be there now.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing.
~ Cecelia Ahern
It is true that there are dreams and single symbols (I should prefer to call them "motifs") that are typical and often occur. Among such motifs are falling, flying, being persecuted by dangerous animals or hostile men, being insufficiently or absurdly clothed in public places, being in a hurry or lost in a milling crowd, fighting with useless weapons or being wholly defenseless, running hard yet getting nowhere.
~ C.G. Jung
A vida é uma ponte entre dois nadas, e tenho pressa.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
Passageways between the Wings are always a little strange. I went through one once that you had to crawl through." "How did they move books through that?" "They didn't, usually. They routed them round some other way. But it was useful if you were in a hurry." He jerked a thumb at the window. "Have you ever seen anyone out there?
~ Genevieve Cogman
He wants to see you. He says it's an emergency. Hurry up before Mom shoots him.
~ Ilona Andrews
I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.
~ Iris Murdoch
The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.
~ G. W. Gough