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Hasten slowly. -- Augustus
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. -- Milarepa
Hasten Little Maiden...stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens... -- Muse
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.] -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. -- William Shakespeare
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way. -- Mike Love
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. -- Janos Bolyai
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs. -- Jane Byrne
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. -- Ovid
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence. -- Ayelet Waldman
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
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. -- Aeschylus
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? -- Horace
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. -- Paul Allen
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice. -- Winthrop Rockefeller
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues. -- Dennis Ritchie
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
As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course. -- Jenna McCarthy
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job. -- Elizabeth McGovern
Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. -- Jane Grey
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live. -- James Stephens
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know. -- Huston Smith
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence. -- Martin Jacques
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. -- Wilfrid Laurier
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. -- Saint Augustine
Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add. -- Loudon Wainwright III
Death hastens those who hasten death. -- Joan Slonczewski
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. -- Seneca the Younger
We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo. -- Vladimir Nabokov
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. -- Albert Camus
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. -- Phyllis McGinley
All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it -- Walt Whitman
Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart. -- Gertrude the Great
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage -- Vanna Bonta
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage. -- Vanna Bonta
Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard. -- Pope Gregory I
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. -- Saul Bellow
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! -- Gustave Flaubert
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected. -- Sun Tzu
If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home. -- Alan Cohen
I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world. -- Robert Paul Weston
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. -- Vincent de Paul
Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket. -- Joseph Estrada
A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!? -- Stephen Colbert
O hasten, Lord, these promised days, When Israel shall rejoice, And Jew and Gentile join in praise, With one united voice! -- James Edmeston
Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers. -- Michael Petch
Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation! -- Muhammad Ali
God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either. -- Martin Luther
At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone. -- Thomas Jefferson
To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end. -- Nikola Tesla
We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat. -- Paul Valery
Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it. -- James A. Michener
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice. -- Walter Raleigh
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. -- Walt Whitman
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain! -- Stanislaw Lem
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner." -- Francis Bacon
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy -- Shantideva
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close. -- William Cowper
It is not advisable to hasten development, because everything needs time. Patience, perseverance and tenacity are fundamental conditions of the development. The pains taken in one's development will be amply rewarded. -- Franz Bardon
And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy. -- Susan Sontag
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted. -- Sun Tzu
Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat yourself and others with kindness when you eat, exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you hasten your ability to connect to the power of intention. -- Wayne Dyer
An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, "I will hasten my work in its time" (D&C 88:73). -- Russell M. Nelson

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