Rush Quotes

949 Rush quotes by 773 unique authors

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a… — Haruki Murakami
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal… — Kim Harrison
I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing… — Harry Crews
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low… — James A. Baldwin
I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist… — Jack Kerouac
It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a… — Peter S. Beagle
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the… — Herman Melville
My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They… — Mary E. Pearson
I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning… — Rick Riordan
Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step… — Maggie Stiefvater
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his… — Tessa Dare
I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love… — Laurell K. Hamilton
We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always… — John Marsden
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
And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the… — W. E. B. Du Bois
And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation,… — Cassandra Clare
Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died. — P. C. Cast
If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst. — Simone Elkeles
I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It… — Terry McMillan
The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off. — Terry McMillan
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The… — Ray Bradbury
I'm ready for that adrenaline rush...with you. — Simone Elkeles
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in… — Robert E. Howard

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