Rushing Around Quotes

#1. Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Maria Shriver

#2. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

Prince Philip

#3. I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

Nora Ephron

#4. I watched the couples walking around the lake, 'Maybe it's the New Yorker in me. I'm too used to rushing around. But everyone here is so relaxed, it's like they're moving in slow motion.'

'Why should they rush? They're not going anywhere.

Elizabeth Bard

#5. What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

Tara Brach

#6. My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

Tom Hollander

#7. Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

Louise Erdrich

#8. Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

Don DeLillo

#9. Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

Mary Baker Eddy

#10. Another funny thing about living in this city is how easy it can be to lose track of people. We're all so busy, always rushing around, so wrapped up in our own stuff. It stops occurring to us to check in with friends. I mean REALLY check in with them.

Ryan Kelly

#11. Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Guy Finley

#12. It seems that danger assigns to public voices the responsibility of a rhythm, as if in metrical units there is a coherence we can use to balance whatever senseless and furious event is about to come rushing around our heads.

Don DeLillo

#13. If you're rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off you're probably going to get hurt.

Joe Teti

#14. In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.

Frederick Franck

#15. To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

William Kingdon Clifford

#16. Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

Nina Easton

#17. I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#18. I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.

Marie Helvin

#19. Asa had a sharp understanding of the future
that is, a time when this would be past. Time was rushing through and around him, he almost heard it whistling, and this awareness rounded the world somehow and made it sweet.

Susanna Kaysen

#20. A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.

Jenny Lawson

#21. See ya, Mercer."
Happiness flooded through me as warm and bright as sunlight. "See ya, Cross.

Rachel Hawkins

#22. I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.

Neal Shusterman

#23. The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clouds, the colors of flowers as the seasons changed - everything around him felt changed, as if they had all been recast.

Haruki Murakami

#24. Waking up from a deep, healing sleep reminds me of rushing toward the surface of a lake, brightness beckoning from above and bubbles fizzing all around me. Consciousness

Amanda Bouchet

#25. To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

Edward Steichen

#26. I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

Ben Marcus

#27. Wherever you are, smile with love like a flower.

Debasish Mridha

#28. I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

Bauvard

#29. You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

Robin Williams

#30. The way in which we go to the grocery store may tell us everything about the way in which we live a life. The way we tend the life force in a plant may be the way we tend our own life force. We are exquisitely coherent.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#31. At a hundred and twenty five miles per hour, with the wind rushing in his face, darkness around him, he is alone in the universe, but then, Zeb has been alone all his life.

Ty Patterson

#32. I liked roaming around by myself.

Jimmy Rushing

#33. Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become for a time, a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It is a return to fundamentals that I instinctively feel are basic and right.

Fred Bear

#34. I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.

Kiersten White

#35. I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

Alfie Allen

#36. When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

Anthony Kennedy

#37. I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.

Megan Mayhew Bergman