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• I find that fashion recently has been a little too hasty. Often times, it's put together quickly to catch the attention of the media, and I didn't want to do that.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Media, Together

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• Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn’t done it “that much.” It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Hurt, Nice

  "Absolute Beginners". www.rookiemag.com. March 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  John Buchan

  Past, Giving, Darkness

  John Buchan (1923). “Great Britain: The Nations of To-day : a New History of the World”

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Persistence, Rocks

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to lose, that is, borrowed funds; and (3) Making hasty decisions. Each of these actions violates one or more biblical principles... Together they constitute a sin called greed.

  Larry Burkett

  Biblical, Thinking, Errors

  Larry Burkett (1990). “Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.

  Paolo Nutini

  Play, Giving, Loving You

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• Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Adventure, Hands, Bipolar

  "Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia".

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• I don't believe in hasty marriages.

  Anna Held

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Scotch, Dancing

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Issues, Decision

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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

  Yi Sun-sin

  Moving, Mountain, Movement

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen, David M. Shapard (2012). “The Annotated Pride and Prejudice: A Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.26, Anchor

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• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Sweet, Land

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• 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.

  Gloria Whelan

  Children, House, Cooking

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• Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

  Thomas Malory

  Love, Night, Men

  Sir Thomas Malory (1936). “A Shorter Malory”

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• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wells

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

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• 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.

  William Howard Taft

  Rights, Self, People

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress”

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• 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.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Forgiveness, Men, Silence

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• Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Son, Wanted

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• Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Heart, Watches

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• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Science, Medicine

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• Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.

  Gena Showalter

  Grandmother, Race, Promise

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.258, Harlequin

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