Top 100 Quotes About Haste
#3. He (life) got to his feet with a sudden jerk,
collected his blanket
and then darted away in such a great haste
that till this date, I've not seen him again.
Suman Pokhrel
#4. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
John Wesley
#5. He dressed quickly in silence, refusing her tissues. He shakily pulled a wad of uncounted notes from his wallet, abandoned them in the no man's land between, and escaped in an indecent haste, leaving the shameful tableau in his wake.
Darren White
#6. She drove fast, as a matter of habit, an even speed without a sense of haste.
Ayn Rand
#8. Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. - Arianne
George R R Martin
#9. Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.
Jesse Lacey
#10. Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
#11. When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.
Dan Millman
#13. Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. If "Been there, done that" isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list.
Gina Greenlee
#15. GEN45.13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Anonymous
#16. Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them
Tarif Naaz
#17. Too great haste leads us to error.
Moliere
#18. Have patience when it is really worth doing so, no matter what, and notwithstanding how hard impatience knocks at your door, and you will know patience better
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
David Malpass
#22. In his haste to get his client on and off the stand with as little damage as possible, Barney neglected to rebut most of the allegations from the state's witnesses. Ron could have explained his "dream confession" to Rogers and Featherstone the night after his arrest.
John Grisham
#23. Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.
Jeff Shaara
#24. The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yours.
Let it be said that nothing was ever accomplished in haste at Iverson.
Shana Abe
#25. Time heals all wounds, while haste only makes them deeper.
Chris Cole
#29. When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
Ambrose Bierce
#31. But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight.
Dawn French
#32. It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
Samuel Johnson
#33. Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
Og Mandino
#35. For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.
William Somervile
#37. The city, compelling as it was, felt like a glamorous couture dress I had bought in haste but that didn't quite fit me after all.
Jojo Moyes
#38. Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
William Shakespeare
#39. Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish
Chris Murray
#40. People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.
Milan Kundera
#41. I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
Lois Lowry
#43. Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere
#46. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
#47. Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.
Statius
#50. All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
Michael Ende
#53. But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
Gustav Stresemann
#54. Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.
George Gordon Byron
#55. A gun is like breath to a drowning man
it has to be drawn in haste.
James M. Cain
#57. I hasten to sleep so that I might dream
and colour my mind with a myriad of things.
Shaun Hick
#59. Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Will Durant
#60. You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#63. If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
Gautama Buddha
#64. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
John Milton
#65. The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.
Walt Whitman
#66. That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
William Hazlitt
#67. Joffrey is in my prayers as well," said Margaery. "I loved him dearly, though I never had the chance to know him." Liar, the queen thought. If you had loved him even for an instant, you would not have been in such unseemly haste to wed his brother. His crown was all you ever wanted. For
George R R Martin
#68. I do not 'gallivant,'" Truzenzuzex commented primly. "I plan in haste.
Alan Dean Foster
#69. In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind.
Anonymous
#70. A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
#71. Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson
#72. Move forward with the proper balance of caution and panicked haste.
Gabriel Mesta
#75. The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#76. The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.
Ramsay MacDonald
#77. We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
Charles Spurgeon
#78. No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.
Samuel Johnson
#79. The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but
Amor Towles
#80. We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.
Henry David Thoreau
#82. It was laid out much like any other town - thoughtlessly, and in haste. Here is where the rich people lived, and here the workers. This is where the white people shopped, and here was the special store for the Chinese, which had everything they could ever want, as long as they didn't want that much.
Daniel Wallace
#84. Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#85. In his haste to devour her body, Charlie noticed that Callum hadn't even bothered to remove his jacket and tie.
Beth Ashworth
#87. slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.
Linda Lantieri
#88. Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Alphonse Karr
#90. So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.
Sun Tzu
#91. Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson
#93. If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
Stewart Udall
#94. If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.
Vincent De Paul
#95. 2. Desire [1] without knowledge is not good, and whoever c makes haste with his feet misses his way.
Anonymous
#96. During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#97. The only reason we were married in such haste was that my mother begged me not to marry Andrew at all. One of you in a marriage has to be soft, she said. One of you has to know how to say, Have it your way. That's not going to be you, dear, so it might as well be the man.
Chris Cleave
#98. As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.
Oswald Chambers
#99. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#100. Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
William Penn
