When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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.
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.
Error is ever the sequence of haste.
Festina lente. Make haste slowly.
Quick enough, if good enough.
The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.
Reckless haste makes poor speed.
In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.
We can. . . start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.