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Quotes About Hurry

Oh!" Karimah says. "It's one minute to midnight. You and Jonah and Prince had better hurry to the room of mirrors. One, two —
~ Sarah Mlynowski
pulled on a pair of gloves, just
~ John Connolly
Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Like a spear hurtling through darkness He was always in such a hurry To find a target to stop him Like a young lion trying out its roar At the far edge of the den The roar inside him was even louder
~ Edward Hirsch
Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business requires their presence elsewhere. —
~ Elaine Sciolino
Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?
~ Elena Ferrante
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
~ Anthony Trollope
vivimos nuestras vidas con prisa, intentando encontrar y ahorrar tiempo, nos encontraremos siempre faltos de él, estresados y exhaustos. «Hacia
~ Arianna Huffington
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
~ Roland Allen
could they get to the river in time?
~ Ruskin Bond
Christians are assimilating a culture of busyness, hurry and overload, which leads to 2) God becoming more marginalized in Christians' lives, which leads to 3) a deteriorating relationship with God, which leads to 4) Christians becoming even more vulnerable to adopting secular assumptions about how to live, which leads to 5) more conformity to a culture of busyness, hurry and overload. And then the cycle begins again.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
~ Andrew Marvell
Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
~ Truman Capote
We haven't the time to take out time.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Later on, when you're older, you won't be able to enjoy anything any more. You'll say, "Oh, I read that twenty years ago in some book." You'd better hurry if you want to catch a husband or fall in love, since everything is bound to be a disappointment to you. You already know all there is to know in theory. But in practice? That's another story!
~ Anne Frank
It's really strange watching people walk past. They all seem to be in such a hurry that they nearly trip over their own feet. Those on bicycles whiz by so fast I can't even tell who's on the bike. The people in this neighborhood aren't particularly attractive to look at. The children especially are so dirty you wouldn't want to touch them with a ten-foot pole. Real slum kids with runny noses. I can hardly understand a word they say.
~ Anne Frank
To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm still some way from that.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Who the hell came up with this brilliant curse? (Aiden) It was the best I could manage in a hurry. (Leta) With those kinds of critical assessment skills you should consider running for political office. (Aiden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.
~ Robert Breault
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
~ Seneca the Younger
In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.
~ Mark Alan Stamaty
Kloof barked excitedly and Stig hurried to grab her collar before she could go after Wulf and fetch him.
~ John Flanagan
He glanced down at his wrist-watch, felt a pang of loneliness crease across his heart. For a single second, he wondered what time it was back home in Vermont, and he had trouble remembering whether it was earlier or later. Then he dismissed this unfair thought when he realized that if he did not hurry, he would be late for the beginning of that morning's proceedings.
~ John Katzenbach
He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco