Quotes About Promptness

#1. Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Clent sat up with impressive if graceless promptness, snatched his wig from a bedknob, and slammed it on his head back to front. Only then did he go about the business of actually waking.

Frances Hardinge

#3. There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,
that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

Alphonse Daudet

#4. The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

#5. I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

Ben Affleck

#6. The angel energises in different places by the quickness of his nature and the promptness and speed by which he can change his place: but the Deity, Who is everywhere and above all, energises at the same time in diverse ways with one simple energy.

John Damascene

#7. The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Jim Rohn

#8. In Haven, old houses didn't settle. They carried a life of their own, and Blackwater farm was no exception. This was a house that would never be a home. The best they could hope for would be to co-exist with the ghosts of the past.
- The Silent Twin

Caroline Mitchell

#9. Time is not a cassette tape that can be wound and rewound.

Paulo Coelho

#10. My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

Jim Davis

#11. Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.

Richard Adams

#12. When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Bill Copeland

#13. But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together.

Siri Mitchell

#14. I'm not an austere person.

Paul Farmer

#15. I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

Pat Metheny

#16. She was a woman who cared more about what she was right about than about being right.

Elise Blackwell

#17. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

#18. My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.

Jenny Mollen

#19. You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Ed Koch