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Quotes About Hurry

They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time, and they are quite right. Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Le vieillard: Maintenant... vous voyez aussi les morts. Pierre: Comment les distingue-t-on des vivants? Le vieillard: C'est bien simple: les vivants, eux, sonts toujours pressés.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
~ Arnold Bennett
Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.
~ Cassandra Clare
Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.
~ Ines de La Fressange
I was in a hurry, because packing is something which you always do at the last minute. Anyone who packs two days before departure should seek counseling.
~ Unknown
Did he expect to be in a hurry coming down? Maybe, Leaphorn thought. Maybe that was it. Time. But Navajos didn't hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time.
~ Tony Hillerman
I'm getting to be like a white man," she said. "I'm getting in a hurry for you to tell me what this is all about.
~ Tony Hillerman
Täytyy pitää kiirettä, että ennättää elää, minulta on mennyt kovin paljon aikaa hukkaan!
~ Tove Jansson
Spika på du bara, man måste skynda sig medan man har lust.
~ Tove Jansson
Now, if you're ready, I think we should go have a wedding." Marty nodded in great enthusiasm. "I was ready when I got here. Will said if we didn't get downstairs, he was gonna come up here and get you. He said he'd carry you over his shoulder if he had to. I think he just wants to kiss you." "Oh dear," Hannah said in mock horror. "Then we had better move quickly.
~ Tracie Peterson
Yet because curiosity implies delay, and delay is regarded as a luxury (but what's the hurry, anyway?), we have become used to life being a series of arrivals or departures, of triumphs and failures, with nothing noteworthy in between.
~ Paul Theroux
My idea was that I would have lunch in Mexicali and hurry back to Calexico, but this line of people was daunting, moving so slowly that I decided to skip lunch and just look.
~ Paul Theroux
In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
~ Warren Buffett
that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
Have I somehow perhaps been in a hurry to experience everything I would have to experience as soon as possible, so that I would have extra time to… to live without facts? to live . Did I early on discharge all my sense duties - early and quickly experience pains and pleasures - to get free all the sooner of my lesser human destiny? to get free so that I could seek my tragedy.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mexicans have a fundamental belief in the doomed quality of humankind's finest schemes. Why hurry fate?
~ Clifford Irving
Intuition is reason in a hurry
~ Holbrook Jackson
She had always had a slight mistrust of busy people; the sort of people who described themselves as 'Flat-out Frantic!' What was the hurry? Why didn't they just slow down? Just what exactly were they so busy doing?
~ Liane Moriarty
I can get an audience screaming in Las Vegas and say, 'Barbara, that was a great show,' and she'll say, 'Would you please hurry up? We have dinner reservations at 9:30.'
~ Don Rickles
Nothing good ever comes out of hurry and frustration, only misery.
~ Auliq Ice
Some of our triggers have been tagged by the British media "hurry sickness." As one columnist wrote, "People who tap their fingers impatiently as they wait for the microwave to finish or huff and puff while their computer starts up could have the latest malady to modern living — 'hurry sickness.'"13 We live life at such a fast pace that if something does not happen quickly enough, we can become indignant and sometimes enraged.
~ Unknown
Run while you still have the chance.
~ Chuck Norris
El tiempo, ay, daba prisa a los hombres.
~ Philip K. Dick