You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always hurry back.
Hurry Quotes
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. (Romeo and Juliet)
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly. (Macbeth)
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things. For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace.
He that too early aspires to honors must resolve to encounter not only the opposition of interest, but the malignity of envy. He that is too eager to be rich generally endangers his fortune in wild adventures and uncertain projects; and he that hastens too speedily to reputation often raises his character by artifices and […]
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Robert, in short, had crossed that certain dark boundary within a man’s soul. He’d entered into a place where fifteen minutes seems a long drive for dinner and a movie. Where he skips the predate shower in favor of a few swipes with the Speed Stick. Where all through dinner he’s plotting how to beg […]
The man who wants to be an angel is never in a hurry to begin.
