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  • I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.

    Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
  • How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

  • History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

    Past   Giving   Darkness  
    John Buchan (1923). “Great Britain: The Nations of To-day : a New History of the World”
  • Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.

  • There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

    Art   War   Men  
    Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic
  • Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

    Dance   Scotch   Dancing  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Repentance follows hasty counsels.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 665-66, 1922.
  • Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

    Rights   Self   People  
    William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress”
  • Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

    Winter   Land   Wings  
    John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...”, p.400
  • The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity.

    Mean   Men   Way  
  • A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

    John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing
  • We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

    Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.540
  • Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

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

    Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.786, e-artnow sro
  • A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

  • One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

    Heart   Men   Fire  
  • Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

    Reading   Pride   Littles  
  • Don't be too hasty," she warned. "Conserve your strength. If you're too eager to fight the undead, you may find yourselves joining them. Then you'd never see us again, and we'd be very sad." "Yes," said Christian. "I'd cry into my pillow every night." I resisted the urge to kick him. "Well, I couldn't visit if I was Strigoi, yeah, but hopefully I'd just die a normal death. Then I could come see you as a ghost.

    Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.156, Penguin
  • Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

    Book   Reading   Pride  
  • Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.

  • Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

    Past   Judging   Style  
  • Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

    Eye   Thinking   People  
    Jane Austen, David M. Shapard (2012). “The Annotated Pride and Prejudice: A Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.26, Anchor
  • I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

    Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.84, GENERAL PRESS
  • On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

  • But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

  • Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

    Bret Harte (1902). “Condensed Novels: New Burlesques”
  • Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

  • Learn diligence before speedy execution.

    Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press
  • Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

    Goodbye   Car   Boots  
    "Robert Plant: the showman must go on" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.
  • I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and made up my mind to go through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia to Florida, thence to Cuba, thence to some part of South America; but it will be only a hasty walk. I am thankful, however, for so much.

    John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.10, e-artnow
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