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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. -- Andrew Marvell
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. -- Alan W. Watts
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. -- Jean Cocteau
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it. -- Tertullian
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. -- William Wordsworth
There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done. -- Mary Steenburgen
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. -- Willa Cather
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. -- Alan W. Watts
There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Be quick without hurrying. -- John Wooden
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time. -- John Ortberg
All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. -- Jean Cocteau
Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent. -- Miyamoto Musashi
There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs. -- Alice Meynell
Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway. -- Mindy Kaling
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good... -- Davy Crockett
Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person. -- Max Lucado
Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season. -- Thomas S. Monson
I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there. -- Bai Ling
Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence. -- George Eliot
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. -- Sam Abell
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness. -- Carl Honore
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. -- Alan Watts
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
Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth. -- Gloria Naylor
There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara -- Masashi Kishimoto
I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening. -- Mary Oliver
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence? -- Horace
life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. -- Willa Cather
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement. -- Mason Cooley
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. -- E. M. Forster
Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation. -- Kelly Vang
Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? -- Edward George, Baron George
With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian. -- Robert A. Heinlein
You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers. -- Dejan Stojanovic
The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation,every sound is speech... -- Sappho
Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side. -- Mike Dooley
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming. -- Satish Kumar
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. -- Kin Hubbard
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. -- George Eliot
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese. -- Hal Borland
I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump. -- Nora Roberts
He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running.He closed his eyes. ("Hunger") -- Charles Beaumont
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying. -- Tryon Edwards
And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky -- John Betjeman

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