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Quotes About Hurry

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
You better hurry, Parker Wilmington." Ashley's voice was muffled against his chest. "Promise me you'll come back to me." Parker rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, sure. I promise." " Tonight. " "Tonight," Parker echoed dutifully. "Cross your heart." "Oh, for Christ's sake, Ashley, I said I'd be back, didn't I? Don't I always come back? Even when you don't want me to?
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Accepting a cup of tea when you're in a hurry, resulting in hundreds of tiny, excruciatingly painful, rapid-fire sips.
~ Rob Temple
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
~ Robert Benchley
What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
~ Robert Browning
Understand: the greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash.
~ Robert Greene
What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone. Now that we do have some time, and know it, I would like to use the time to talk in some depth about things that seem important.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
But tonight is a gusty, hurrying night . . . even the clouds racing over the sky are in a hurry and the moonlight that gushes out between them is in a hurry to flood the world.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Anyway, she thought, impatiently, if I wanted him I think I'd find some way of hurrying him up. Ludovic SPEED! Was there ever such a misfit of a name? Such a name for such a man is a delusion and a snare.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I see you're in a hurry to get someplace. It's a great mistake to hurry." "Why?" Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything the traveler said. "Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.
~ Larry McMurtry
Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.
~ Larry McMurtry
Hurry up and get changed, and don't call my daughter a bitch again.' 'No promises,' Lois said. 'You know what she's doing as well as I do, Gene. She doesn't give a damn about Sonny, she just wants to hurt us and get a little attention while she's doing it. What is that but bitchery?
~ Larry McMurtry
Maybe that was just childhood? You hurry up, pick the opposite path, try to make childhood end. Then, as an adult, you have no idea why you were running away. What, exactly, you needed so desperately to get away from.
~ Laura Dave
You talk of the mines of Australia, They've wealth in red gold, without doubt; But, ah! there is gold on the farm, boys— If only you'll shovel it out. (Chorus:) "Don't be in a hurry to go! Don't be in a hurry to go! Better risk the old farm awhile longer, Don't be in a hurry to go!
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Hurry up," Gracie called after him. "I want to talk to dead people.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
~ Lawrence Durrell
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
~ Evelyn Underhill
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
~ Matthew Arnold
Everyone is in a hurry; they all have plans and places to be.
~ Jenny Han
On top of the dashboard are three dials in a raised binnacle. They tell you nothing you need to know but they look good. They look sporty. They tell you that you are a man in a hurry, but here's hoping you aren't, because this is not a fast car.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.
~ Ernest Hemingway
SpuneÅ£i repede, domnule, c? n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihn?.
~ Eugene Ionesco