Hurrying Quotes

“How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little hurrying feet! There were endless desperate swarms of them, hurrying through the station and the streets, and an hour from now they would all be still. The waiting mid-town office buildings would swallow them up and contain them, so that to stand in one tower looking out across the canyon to another would be to inspect a great silent insectarium displaying hundreds of tiny pink men in white shirts, forever shifting papers and frowning into telephones, acting out their passionate little dumb show under the supreme indifference of the rolling spring clouds.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children

“Fast takes longer when you hurry. Keep calm and saunter on.”
― Mike Dooley

“You are hurrying to the sweet place,
To the nonsense chasing your spirit
And in the nonsense you look for answers.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

“If you need to hurry...you’re already too late.”
― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

“They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

“In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When people think time is against them, they get a different feeling. No one however knows with all certainty, what exactly is in the next moment of time! Something can change!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It was a familiar feeling, to be hurrying someplace without really knowing what is going on. When I was a child, this happened all the time, because when you are a child, nothing is your business, and you are constantly being yanked one place or another with no satisfying explanation provided by the adults doing the yanking, and so you soon get used to being in a constant state of bewilderment.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“You cannot beat time
by running through its carriages.”
― Hemat Malak, Your Angels Called and Left a Message: Divine Messages to Guide You to Happiness

“Don't run against time go hand in hand”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“There are more days than joys to fill them.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“In days long past, Jarod said he’d write a sentence about my love, translated in Russian, and that sentence, like my love, is clearly not for sale, unlike his virginity, or this book, which I’m both offering at ten times the market value, so hurry up and buy now, before it goes down.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.”
― Edgar H. Schein

“Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.”
― John Ortberg Jr., The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“...det känns som att alla i vår ålder bara vill prata om framtiden. Vad som händer efter skolan, vart alla ska resa, vad alla ska göra. Det är väldigt få som tar sig tid att lyssna på det som händer här och nu.”
― Callum Bloodworth, Berätta tre saker

“PILOTS IN A HURRY SHOULD TAKE CRASH COURSES”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch