Rushing In Quotes

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Agnes Repplier

Cat, Rushing, Mad

Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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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

Inspirational, Time, Tea Drinking

Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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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

Hippie, Rights, Years

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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

Patriotic, Past, Rushing

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If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

Jimmy Rushing

Rushing, Typical, Records

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

Funny, Life, Wisdom

Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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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

Rushing, Car, Details

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Laozi

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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

Couple, Airplane, Rushing

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I guess that's why they call it Hell.

Jack Nicklaus

Hangover, Golf, Occupy Wall Street

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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

Government, Years, Rushing

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

A. A. Milne

Inspirational, Life, Patience

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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

Couple, Mistake, Golf

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Rushing, Trying, Deadline

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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

Time, Ocean, Rushing

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

Mark Nepo

Ocean, Heart, Rushing

Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.111, Conari Press

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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

Rushing, Silence, Would Be

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Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.

Louis C. K.

Sadness, Rushing, Lucky

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As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Dennis Kucinich

Spiritual, Opportunity, Rushing

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When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

Selima Hill

Rushing, People, Scary

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Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

Alice Hegan Rice

Cheer, Heart, Rushing

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When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

Armand Hammer

Moving, One Direction, Rushing

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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

Prayer, Rushing, Never Settle

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If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.

Sarah Dessen

Rushing, Moments, Enough

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.267, Penguin

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I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.

Kiersten White

Eye, Dark, Rushing

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