Hasty Quotations

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Brushing with hasty steps the dews away / To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

I don't want people to make a hasty decision about Jeff's future without at least hearing from the people who were involved first-hand.

Grey pensive eve now admonishes us of gloomy night's hasty approach: I am roused by care to seek a place of secure repose, ere darkness comes on.

What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification.

Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni and much-hyped annual awards ceremonies. One year Mel Gibson recited Hamlet and escaped from a straitjacket. Tom Cruise has strutted in a bra and stilettos. This year Sarah Jessica Parker gets the prize. A recent ... episode was about money woes. I wonder if there will be any jokes about dough this time!

Hasty is still in contention. He has done some good things.

We looked flat at times and I thought pressure on us forced us into some hasty decisions. And they capitalized.

I think it's a bad precedent to arbitrarily select lands in a hasty manner and trade important public land to buy asphalt to fill potholes on county roads.

I might have been too hasty at the Finance Committee meeting. It would be good to pay for trustees and their spouses and for the award winners. However, I would not like to see us pay for drinks for alcoholic beverages.

I was perhaps a bit hasty but did have the full intention to retire,

We won't miss out on good opportunities to acquire and expand our international business, but we won't be reckless and hasty in our moves to buy assets.

I don't believe in hasty marriages.

We should not be hasty regarding the issues and the constitution should not be born crippled, ... We are keen to have an early constitution, but the constitution should be completed in all of its items in a proper manner that appeals to all components of the Iraqi people so that the whole people interact with the whole constitution.

The only thing we're guilty of here is hasty good intentions,

We cannot but welcome this effort of the Secretary General. It is something the President of the Republic himself has repeatedly requested from the Secretary General. Our effort is to avoid a hasty new process of negotiations,which would fail in no time, because that would be a catastrophe for Cyprus. That is why we are insisting on properly preparing the ground, creating the necessary conditions so that when a new process begins there would truly be realistic prospects to lead this process to an agreed solution and this is what we expect the UN Secretary General to do.

What the Democrats have is a good point that we probably decided on this tax cut in a hasty fashion. We should have waited to see how the economy was going to unfold over the course of this year and what other demands were going to be placed on the budget.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

That village was found to be completely deserted. Inside the houses, the bedding the household material were strewn all over the floors, signs of looting and hasty departures.

The whole book was rather crude & hasty but how far it really was less useful on that account I don't know.

It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

It's a hasty move and, in my opinion, very ill advised.

Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon: / He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

If you ever come to feel any doubt of my character or of my heartfelt devotion to you... the title of Father of My Country will give me no additional honor, but will be a reproach to you, either for your hasty action in conferring the appellation upon me, or for your inconsistency in changing your estimate of my character.

I just feel really honored that they would choose me to give the beautiful pudding pot to. One of the things I love most is laughing at myself and laughing at this crazy industry that I've been so blessed to be a part of. Any time you laugh at yourself, I think that's a memorable moment, and I did that. I take this Hasty Pudding Pot very seriously and I'm going to put it right next to my Oscar.

I have no time for babbling foolishness.” “Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

Nature's hasty conscience.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

The Iraqi planes when they saw they were engaged and being fired upon by the U.S. planes turned and beat a hasty retreat out of the no-fly zone.

These are not the hasty responses of random people who participated in a test survey. These are actual responses from actual prospective jurors in this case who took time to carefully and thoughtfully write out their answers.

The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.