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  • I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.

    Prayer   Lying   Soul  
    Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”
  • Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  • One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

  • Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

  • He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

    "A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford".
  • Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

    Trying   Way   Hurrying  
    Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.32, New World Library
  • life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

    Life   Running   Sweet  
    Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.375, Simon and Schuster
  • We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.

    Real   Focus   Joy  
  • If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

    Sunshine   Simple   Night  
    Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America
  • The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

    Time   Morning   Night  
    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.374, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.

    Song   Lying   Thinking  
    "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)
  • For sure, sometimes I don't know what I am doing.

  • My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

    Simone De Beauvoir (2013). “The Woman Destroyed”, p.49, Pantheon
  • You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

    Sweet   Looks   Answers  
    "Circling: 1978-1987" by Dejan Stojanovic, Krugovanje, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "The Circle," (p. 39), 1993.
  • And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

    Time   Lying   Desert  
    "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)
  • When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

    Business   Tired   Self  
    William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

    Summer   Book   School  
    Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr
  • If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

    Imagination   Rant   Ifs  
  • Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

    Art   Powerful   Wine  
  • Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

    Long   Littles   Wander  
  • Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

    Wisdom   Haste   Hurrying  
    Letter to a member of the Society. 10 December 1777, in 'Select Letters' (1837)
  • Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer to the home of eternal. life; on the contrary, he is hurrying to the torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a pagan without Baptism, but even if he continue as a heretic after having been baptized.

    Home   Heaven   Baptism  
  • But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

    Witty   Time   Humorous  
    "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)
  • Learn diligence before speedy execution.

    Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press
  • Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

    Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.
  • 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

    Photography   Wall   Ohio  
  • Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

    Dallas Willard (2014). “Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God”, p.144, InterVarsity Press
  • Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

    Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”
  • But how do they get inside?" "They fly," Jace said, and indicated the upper floors of the building. [...] "We don't fly," Clary felt impelled to point out. "No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter." He started across the street toward the hotel. "Flying sounds like more fun," Clary said, hurrying to catch up with him. "Right now everything sounds like more fun.

    Fun   Flying   Sound  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.233, Simon and Schuster
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