#haste

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know. ↗

— Huston Smith

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The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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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

#applies #before #between #change #does

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#haste #hurry #more #opposed #safety

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#chaste #most #never #something #them

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#haste #humor #hurry #ridiculousness #business

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #wisdom #wisdom

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. ↗

— Gene Ween

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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