Quotes of Rapidity - somelinesforyou

“ Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it. ”

- Don Baylor

“ Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I liked quickness very much and Pete had it. And I really liked his acceptance of the role he had. He didn't get to play nearly as much as he expected to when he came, but he accepted it. ”

- John Wooden

“ Make haste; the better foot before. - King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. ”

- Faith Baldwin

“ There were so many times I thought, "I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year." Then there were a couple of years where I thought, "I'm never gonna do this." If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time… ”

- Kate Bush

“ I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Without haste, but without rest. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Nay, but make haste, the better foot before. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. ”

- Cleopatra

“ Haste is slow. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ On wings of wind came flying all abroad. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? ”

- Saint Jerome

“ Quick enough, if good enough. ”

- Saint Jerome

“ I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ The more haste, ever the worst speed. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ He gets through too late who goes too fast. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Hasten deliberately. ”

- Augustus Caesar

“ Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis always left behind. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Aeschylus

“ Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste. ”

- Mark Lawrenson

“ So turning to his horse, he said, / I am in haste to dine; / 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, / You shall go back for mine. ”

- William Cowper

“ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. ”

- Bible
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