
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Source: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
A collection of quotes on the topic of hurry, time, timing, going.
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Source: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
“Do not hurry over punishments and do not be pleased and do not be proud of your power to punish.”
Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 53: An order to Malik Al-Ashtar
“If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.”
American Sketches
“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
As quoted in The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007 (2006) by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, p. 44
As quoted in "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'" by Ian Sample, in The Guardian (15 May 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven
Context: I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Source: Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
“And here you are hurried,
And here you are gone;
And here is the love,
That it's all built upon.”
"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Source: Address to the electors of Buckinghamshire (12 December 1832), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 225
On Stanley Baldwin, as cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), Ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 322 ISBN 1586486381
Also quoted by Kay Halle in Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill's Wit http://books.google.com/books?id=b0MTAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Occasionally+he+stumbled+over+the+truth+but+hastily+picked+himself+up+and+hurried+on+as+if+nothing+had+happened%22&pg=PA133#v=onepage (1966).
The 1930s
Variant: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Source: The Curious Savage
Quoted by Maya Angelou (quote reproduced in James L. Conyers, Andrew P. Smallwood, Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, Carolina Academic Press, 2008, p. 181 and Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli, Maya Angelou: More than a poet, Enslow Publishers, 1996, p. 90)
Attributed
"The Flight of the Duchess", line 881.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
25 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
1860s, First Inaugural Address (1861)
I'm not gonna lie to you guys, George knows that I do it; I don't think he likes it!
Hot & Fluffy (2007)
WHAT?! "Check it out, eh, it's the Fat and the Furious!"
Hot & Fluffy (2007)
Book I, Chapter 10.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Quoted in "Owens, Back, Gets Hearty Reception" by Louis Effrat, The New York Times, 25 August 1936, p.25 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=940CEFDC1E30E13BBC4D51DFBE66838D629EDE.
1930s
Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made
1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918)
The Ragged Wood http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1673/
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Context: p>O hurry where by water among the trees
The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh,
When they have but looked upon their images--
Would none had ever loved but you and I!Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed
Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky,
When the sun looked out of his golden hood?--
O that none ever loved but you and I!O hurry to the ragged wood, for there
I will drive all those lovers out and cry—
O my share of the world, O yellow hair!
No one has ever loved but you and I.</p
“Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down.”
Debussy in a letter to his pupil Raoul Bardac (1906)
Context: Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture — a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
Swenson, 1959, p. 28
1840s, Either/Or (1843)
“I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.”
As quoted in the "Saturday Review" (28 November 1874)
General sources
Source: John Wesley's Sermons: An Anthology
Source: The Sky is Falling
Source: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“When you’ve found out that the person you love loves you, you can’t
delay. You have to hurry.”
Source: Cloaked
Source: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
Source: The Sweetest Thing
“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
“Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“There is no hurry. Time means nothing
to you.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
Source: Seeds of Contemplation
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Depuis le jour de ma naissance, ma mort s'est mise en marche. Elle marche à ma rencontre, sans se presser.
"Postambule" in La Fin du Potomac (1939); later published in Collected Works Vol. 2 (1947)
“There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara”
“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
“Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?"
"Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!”
Source: The Last Olympian
Along Came a Dog (1958)
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
Address to the electors of South Paddington, quoted in The Times (21 June 1886), p. 6. The "old man in a hurry" was Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone
The Hsin-hsin-ming of Seng-ts'an, lines 61–68
Translations, Trust in Mind (2008)
Silent Equality http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21405/Silent_Equality
From the poems written in English