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Quotes About Hurry

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
~ Georg Brandes
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...
~ Alice Munro
waiting for the time to be free ...i ask every die forgeting sometimes soon i will be free for ever ... dont hurry the death.
~ Unknown
My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
~ Oliver Cromwell
A couple of minutes later, the turbolift doors hissed open. Spock was standing in the turbolift. He had the air of a man who had been in an extreme hurry, but who had been stopped in midrush and given something he didn't understand. He was holding a small flat cushion.
~ Diane Duane
In a country that's in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.
~ Don DeLillo
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
~ J.D. Robb
Before he followed her, Hank rushed to the back and
~ Unknown
I received that caress several times - the only one I was able to tolerate - the silent gratitude of a woman receiving death at my hands. None wanted to endure pain and I think they were in a hurry to die. I don't know how many I killed - I who count everything, that was one thing I didn't count.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
She dressed quickly in yellow drawstring pants and a lacy camisole over her bra, then pulled on a sheer blouse with dragons crawling down the shoulders. She slipped into sandals with butterflies, grabbed her messenger bag, and hurried downstairs.
~ Lynne Ewing
Quiero la esencia. Mi alma tiene prisa...
~ Unknown
Victims, he thought, were birds and animals and people who arrived at the wrong place at the wrong time, usually in too big a hurry.
~ John D. MacDonald
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
~ John Irving
I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work, and their hurry to return to their folk … and their need to say: Good Morning …
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster than usual, and his shoulders swayed backwards and forwards, right and left, in the most absurd fashion; altogether he looked, so utterly had he abandoned himself to it, ignoring all other considerations, as though he were the lifeless and wire-pulled puppet of his own happiness.
~ Marcel Proust
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
What's the RLH protocol?" I asked. "It means run like hell
~ John Scalzi
In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.
~ John Steinbeck
So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this.
~ John Steinbeck
Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Oh dear…then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings…before nightfall!' - Phillip Celeste from Curse of Ancient Shadows
~ Unknown
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe