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Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body! -- Guy Finley
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record. -- Jimmy Rushing
Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much. -- Mary Baker Eddy
When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution. -- Bill Crawford
We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection. -- Dogen
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. -- Laozi
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. -- John F. Kennedy
Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish -- Michael Kors
I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details. -- Brooke Langton
The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back. -- Greg Norman
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain. -- Gautama Buddha
Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside. -- Tamora Pierce
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. -- Paul Getty
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. -- Eric Johnston
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. -- Nhat Hanh
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. -- Dawn Powell
Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion. -- Eckhart Tolle
Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite. -- Maria Shriver
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print. -- Bob Woodward
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance. -- Nora Ephron
My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when Im rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit! -- Jessica Seinfeld
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. -- David Steindl-Rast
When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. -- Nhat Hanh
That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it. -- Thomas Carlyle
I don't believe in making a record and rushing it. -- Hunter Hayes
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy. -- Michael Horton
You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing. -- Anthony Fauci
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. -- Paul Getty
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. -- Ray Bradbury
Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown. -- Jonathan Carroll
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. -- Camille Paglia
I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster. -- Ryan Lochte
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch. -- Mariella Frostrup
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Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people rushing into battle knew who to follow and who was on their side. -- Jim Lee
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process - the characters, the costumes - rather than worrying about the finished product. -- Michelle Dockery
I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow. -- Kevin Hart
Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work. -- Carl Honore
My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when I'm rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit! -- Jessica Seinfeld
In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing? -- Barry Sanders
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings. -- Jane Birkin
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock. -- Carl Honore
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?' -- Michael Bloomberg
I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters. -- Amy Chua
Better start rushing before the rush begins! -- Ashleigh Brilliant
The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm -- Scott Holman
I'm always late for things and always feel like I'm rushing. -- Poppy Delevingne
In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives. -- Ann Voskamp
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Stop rushing me. I want to take my time falling in love with you. -- Ai Yazawa
Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking. -- James Altucher
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. -- Demosthenes
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight. -- Sebastian Faulks
Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster. -- Vince Staples
I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life. -- Carson Ellis
When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way. -- Armand Hammer
His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory. -- Christy Nockels
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. -- D. H. Lawrence
We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If you're rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off you're probably going to get hurt. -- Joe Teti
Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. -- David Gerrold
Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him. -- Basilea Schlink
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back. -- Jenna Elfman
We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it! -- Prince Philip
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. -- Don DeLillo
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. -- Tom Robbins
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting. -- Graham Swift
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. -- Shana Alexander
I get annoyed with rushing. Then I get in a bad mood - I'm so cranky. I hate being late. -- Kim Kardashian
People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals. -- Dave Matthews
The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. -- Shana Alexander
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. -- George D. Prentice
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. -- Margaret Bourke-White
When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary! -- Selima Hill
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields. -- Jackson Browne
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river. -- Gautama Buddha
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. -- Dawna Markova
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. -- E. F. Schumacher
And then his lips were on mine and we were in it, pulling away from the past and rushing fast into the future. -- Renee Carlino
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March! -- Bayard Taylor
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim. -- Thomas Carlyle
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom. -- Scott Holman
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified. -- Terence McKenna
The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere. -- Lynn Austin
I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons. -- Adrian Peterson
I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. -- Anais Nin
As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh! -- Barbara Johnson
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be. -- Suzanne Vega
And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her. -- Laini Taylor
The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag. -- Thomas Carlyle
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Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic. -- Jennifer Dunning
I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing... -- Charli XCX
Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot. -- Dwight L. Moody
And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar. -- Mary Oliver
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. -- Nhat Hanh
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster. -- William McFee
I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner. -- Lynsey Addario
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. -- Douglas Pagels
It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions. -- Roelof Botha
When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do. -- Mark Pellegrino
Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel. -- Christopher Paolini
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk. -- Bill Hybels
The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies. -- William C. Bryant
Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out. -- Nita Leland
High in the sky is a bird on a wing Please carry me with you Far far away from the mad rushing crowd Please carry me with you -- Tom Springfield
When you focus on just one thing at a time, without rushing or procrastinating, you cultivate a sense of timeless awareness that creates feelings of calm and well-being. -- Deepak Chopra
Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation. -- Donald Miller
The host is rushing 'twixt day and night,And where is there hope or deed as fair?Caoilte tossing his burning hair,And Niamh calling Away, come away. -- W.B. Yeats
Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!! -- Charles Bukowski
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life. -- Gretel Ehrlich

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