He Who Hesitates Is Lost Quotes

#1. He who hesitates is lost.

Marcus Porcius Cato

#2. Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

Carl Sagan

#3. I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!

Connor Paolo

#4. A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Guy Finley

#6. In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

Kal Penn

#7. He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

Ian McEwan

#8. He felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought.

John Edward Williams

#9. I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

Julia Voth

#10. Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

Erin Heatherton

#11. With Theo's help and Nora's acquiescence she had begun, oysterlike, to coat over, to conceal what could not be borne as it was. The letter was not mentioned again.

Elizabeth Taylor

#12. It is the only thing we can do. ... Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate added to this world makes it still more inhospitable. - ETTY HILLESUM29

Matthieu Ricard

#13. When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

Jeff Cooper

#14. Seeing color doesn't mean you're a racist. It means your eyes work, but that you are hopefully able to see color not for a discrepancy in normal, but as a beautiful component of diversity.

Brittany Gibbons

#15. Dulcie said there were no cats in the Bible, but Kit wasn't sure she believed that. Why would there be horses and cows and dogs, wild pigs and weasels, but no cats? Why, when everyone knew that a little cat would have to be God's favorite?

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#16. What I do is me, for that I came.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#17. When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

Stephen Colbert