Hurries Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the…
— Aldo Leopold
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is…
— George Stigler
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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries…
— Sappho
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Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if…
— R. Kent Hughes
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There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Time hurries by, we're here and gone.
— Howard Dietz
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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
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Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day…
— Euripides
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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
— Horace
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The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward…
— Bill McKibben
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Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.
— William George Jordan
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God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
— Alexandre Dumas
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I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the…
— Daniel Defoe
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He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be…
— Rainbow Rowell
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He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
— George R. R. Martin
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Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to…
— Emily Carr
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Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than…
— Paul Bowles
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Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless…
— Alan Watts
Who Wrote These Hurries Quotes
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