Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!

We have not the time to take our time.

I've been described as impatient.

I'm impatient.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Americans are too speedy.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.

I am a stereotypical northeasterner. I'm always in a rush. I've attracted stares from out-of-towners when I've shoved past someone blocking the subway door.

I'm very impatient. I always want more.

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

What's exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up - how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we're all on the move and all so busy?

I learned to value speed in everything I do.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.