Hasten Quotes

105 Hasten quotes by 92 unique authors

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future,… — Friedrich Schiller
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices… — Adelaide Anne Procter
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall… — Blaise Pascal
Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard. — Pope Gregory I
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs. — Jane Byrne
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power… — Leon Foucault
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. — Seneca the Younger
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine… — Walter Raleigh
And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically,… — Susan Sontag
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled… — Stanislaw Lem
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage. — Vanna Bonta
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. — Saul Bellow
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. — William Lloyd Garrison
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence. — Ayelet Waldman
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,… — Walt Whitman
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes… — John Irving
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. — Albert Camus
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set… — Saint Augustine
In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To… — Melissa Marr
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born… — Victor Hugo
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive.… — Spider Robinson
And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten… — Neil Gaiman

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