#haste

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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.


Barbara Jordan


#all things #condition #consequences #deafness #did

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.


Rasheed Ogunlaru


#delay #fear #future #haste #inspiring-quotes

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview.


Charles Dickens


#inferiority #shame #women #life

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.


Aeschylus


#cleanse #course #flow #hand #hasten

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.


Aeschylus


#haste #hastens #him #makes #man

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.


Henri Frederic Amiel


#dark #haste #hearts #journey #kind

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.


Saint Augustine


#does #ears #eyes #feet #hands

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.


Gregory Bateson


#fact #fear #hastens #in fact #make

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


#books #course #five #forward #given

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.


Lord Byron


#haste #leisure #love #men