When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more.
Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy. . . and no money to buy it with.
We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
A sense of the value of time. . . is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.
Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
God is never in a hurry, but God is never late
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.
It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.