Best Hurried Sayings
79 Hurried quotes by 76 unique authors
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I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and…
— Charles Dickens
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One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the…
— Hermann Hesse
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Across the room, she heard a loud clatter. She looked up to see that Roland ahd fallen out of his chair. The last time she'd…
— Lauren Kate
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With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His…
— Rick Riordan
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I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away,…
— Jan Karon
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Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the…
— Paullina Simons
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The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born…
— Eric Hoffer
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I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood…
— Nicole Krauss
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
— Don DeLillo
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Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more…
— Harold Bell Wright
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They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the…
— Karen Maitland
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I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said. "I hurried.
— Patricia Briggs
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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in…
— David Nicholls
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The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and…
— Astrid Lindgren
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What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high…
— Cassandra Clare
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Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until…
— A A Milne
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He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing,…
— A. S. Byatt
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Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I…
— John Boyne
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Ready?" Tove asked without looking at me. He started walking before I answered. "Duncan, you don't need to come with us," I told him as…
— Amanda Hocking
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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy…
— Louisa May Alcott
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In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
— Edith Wharton
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The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the…
— Robert Southey
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Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
— Dave deBronkart
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