Hurry Quotes - page 2

A gentleman is never in a hurry. (André Maurois)
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. View quote
Maria Mitchell
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife. View quote
Matthew Arnold
An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service. View quote
Frank Buckles
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more. View quote
Joe Strummer
After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry. View quote
Bill Bryson
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried. View quote
Fritz Leiber
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there. View quote
John Buchan
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. (Will Durant)
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. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. View quote
John Steinbeck
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible. View quote
Nico
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. View quote
Robertson Davies
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. View quote
Homer
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence. View quote
James Joyce
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.' (Ingmar Bergman)
When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield. View quote
Walter Scott
If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye. View quote
Anna Sewell
What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here. View quote
Mark Richardson
It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be. View quote
Megan McCafferty
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