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Hasten Quotes

Hasten Definition  
Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.
Jane Grey

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Aeschylus

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Milarepa

Hasten slowly.
Augustus

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
Huston Smith

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
Pierre Beaumarchais

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.
Winthrop Rockefeller

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
Paul Allen

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
Janos Bolyai

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
Jane Byrne

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
Leon Foucault

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
Dennis Ritchie

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.
Mike Love

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
Wilfrid Laurier

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace






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