Posthaste Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to return to prose after a fifteen-year hiatus. An epistolary novella maybe. A man went into the mountains fifteen years ago to write the following letter to a woman: "Dear B., I'd like to strike you down with an iron rod. Maybe I love you. If you feel the same way and your wishes conform to mine, then please please get in touch with me posthaste. We'll discuss this matter together and make the necessary arrangements if everything works out. With warm wishes, Your Bernd." The letter is, however, never mailed and never written. In further letters to B. from Bernd, he pursues, among other things, the question: why? The last letter could be the one in which Bernd lets B. know that the matter has been settled since he has just been struck down by a group of women with iron rods. — Urs Allemann

We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough. — Darin Strauss

There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport ... it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world. — John F. Kennedy

I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me. — Kevin Durand

teenagers to eat without — Kimberly Lang

For Gat with everything, everything. Cady — E. Lockhart

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result. — Carolyn Wells

we are free of each other, and yet not, and never will be. — Elizabeth Strout

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste. — Bill Callahan

Lord Maccon believed that if his trousers were on his legs, and something else was on his torso, he was dressed. The less done after that, the better. His wife had been startled to find that in the summertime, he actually went around their room barefoot! Once
and only once, mind you
he even attempted to join her for tea in such a state. Impossible man. Alexia put a stop to that posthaste. — Gail Carriger

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant. — Ellen G. White

She needs tampons. Evidently it helps with this process. We have to secure the location of where they are being sold, acquire them and then get them back to my mate posthaste. — Alanea Alder

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together. — Phyllis Logan

The same energy used to point out someone's flaws, can be used to work on your own. — Mark Sutton

Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again! — Gene Wolfe

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly! — Richard Hammond