#premature

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#avoid #each #formulae #letting #make

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#battlefield #business #come #die #health

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#early #premature #range #safe #within

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#before #bring #bringing #chaos #done

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#befall #entrenched #fate #man #negation

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#genetic #just #premature #thing #two

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #death #die #i #my own

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#i #i can #know #long #next

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. ↗

— Henry Miller

#america #been #before #chance #fruit

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#leads #nothing #premature #scientist #truth