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Quotes About Hurry

In a voice that rasped with frustration as well as tender amusement, Hunter said, "You have such a great want for me that we must hurry, yes?
~ Catherine Anderson
Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
has dropped into the river, said Hurry, after looking carefully along
~ James Fenimore Cooper
All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.
~ Chris Grayling
In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.
~ Edgar H. Schein
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
~ Ariel Durant
Somewherein desolate wind-swept space In Twilight-landin No-mans land Two hurrying Shapes met face to face, And bade each other stand.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.
~ Holland Roden
There's a hurried intensity in the strokes--you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush. It's as if he knew there wasn't much time left. And yet, there's a serenity in his face, a sense of something that's survived its own ruin.
~ Nicole Krauss
It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.
~ Nora Roberts
Bring wine," she hissed into the phone. "And Matthew's pizza. Those lima beans with feta cheese from Mezze. Sopa-pillas from Golden West. Hurry!
~ Laura Lippman
impatient. I had to do things the Army's way: hurry up and wait.
~ Charles Brandt
That's right, yeah. I told him I'd be in Detroit tomorrow. I better start driving right now." "Don't be in such a hurry," Russ said, and handed me the envelope that he had placed on the table when he sat down. "Go ahead, open it." In it was a plane ticket to Detroit and a pile of $100s. All
~ Charles Brandt
The struggle in Mr. Guppy's breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother's door and us were sufficiently conspicuous in the windy street (particularly as his hair wanted cutting) to make us hurry away. I did so with a lightened heart; but when we last looked back, Mr. Guppy was still oscillating in the same troubled state of mind.
~ Charles Dickens
Saint Antoine slept, the Defarges slept: even The Vengeance slept with her starved grocer, and the drum was at rest. The drum's was the only voice in Saint Antoine that blood and hurry had not changed. The Vengeance, as custodian of the drum, could have wakened him up and had the same speech out of him as before the Bastille fell, or old Foulon was seized; not so with the hoarse tones of the men and women in Saint Antoine's bosom.
~ Charles Dickens
Miss Tox left her seat in a hurry, and returned to her plants; clipping among the stems and leaves, with as little favour as a barber working at so many pauper heads of hair.
~ Charles Dickens
But I was in a hurry, so I let him drive. I wasn't thinking about formalities then. I knew I ought to get back home quickly. Anyhow, he was so respectful I knew he was all right." "Hmm! There are respectful crooks sometimes! But never mind; go on.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
We hurry since everything hurries And I shall never not return Memories are all archaic horns Silenced by the wind.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Beloved men, know that this is the truth:1 This world is in haste, and it approaches its end, and therefore always in the world The longer (it is), the worse (it gets) …
~ Guy Deutscher
off the bed to the left and run for the
~ James Patterson
I'm staying in my wheelhouse, not making any romantic comedies in a hurry.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
In a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that.
~ Thomas Ligotti
I smell panic," said Serge. "These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.
~ Tim Dorsey
Up with the other one, ordered the burglar. You might be amphibious and shoot with your left. You can count two, can't you? Hurry up, now.
~ O. Henry