#hurry

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#began #birth #day #hurrying #me

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry. ↗

— Andy Dick

#chris #farley #had #him #hung

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attempt #become #beware #endeavoring #fearful

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#belongs #end #freedom #goodness #hurry

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. ↗

— Walter Hagen

#flowers #here #hurry #only #short

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#being #being misunderstood #danger #day #hurry

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#death #die #first #hurry #i

Journalism is literature in a hurry. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#journalism #literature

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cigar #costly #emotional #habit #hurry