#haste

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#haste #humor #hurry #ridiculousness #business

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #wisdom #wisdom

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. ↗

— Gene Ween

#absolutely not #decision #haste #however #interpreted

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#everything #fear #hasten #i #laugh

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. ↗

— Janos Bolyai

#hasten #like #man #mathematical #retard

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 to either hasten or slow it down. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#calmly #develops #down #either #feels

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

#dead #enough #every #hasten #leap

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. ↗

— William Godwin

#educate #education #ends #forget #haste

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#all things #condition #consequences #deafness #did

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#delay #fear #future #haste #inspiring-quotes