Precipitately Quotes & Sayings

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266- — Cassandra Clare

Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses. — Pearl Zhu

Few Come This Way

Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but they come
Reluctant here who fear to find,
Thickening the darkness, what they left behind
Sucking its cheeks before the fire at home,
The palsied Indecision from whose dancing head
Precipitately they fled, only to come again
Upon him here,
Clutching at the wrist of Venture with a cold
Hand, aiming to fall in with him, companion
Of the new as of the old. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood. — Rob Zombie

The greater part of mankind are naturally apt to be affirmative and dogmatical in their opinions; and while they see objects only on one side, and have no idea of any counterpoising argument, they throw themselves precipitately into the principles, to which they are inclined; nor have they any indulgence for those who entertain opposite sentiments. To hesitate or balance perplexes their understanding, checks their passion, and suspends their action. They are, therefore, impatient till they escape from a state, which to them is so uneasy: and they think, that they could never remove themselves far enough from it, by the violence of their affirmations and obstinacy of their belief. But — David Hume

Oh yeah, I'm mentally screwed up for life. But I look good. — Christopher Titus

In every area of life there's nothing but chaos. Wherever we turn there's chaos, in the sciences there's chaos, in politics, it's chaos, whatever we do, it's all chaotic, wherever we look, purely chaotic conditions, chaotic conditions are all we ever have to deal with. Because everything is being done precipitately, in a rush. In such a time of precipitateness and overhastiness and the consequent chaotic conditions a thinking man should never act precipitately or overhastily in anything that concerns him, but every single one of us constantly acts precipitately, overhastily, in every way. — Thomas Bernhard

Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not. — Niki Tsongas

Effective action is always unjust. — Maya Angelou

Prescribed exercise, still ran through boskage between the partisan bivouacs. The circle of villas in the outskirts of the town abandoned precipitately by their owners had been allotted by the partisans to various official purposes. In the largest of these the Russian mission lurked invisibly. — Evelyn Waugh

It is always the silly things that remind me — Alexandra Potter

I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool. — Aaron Patzer

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Damn it, there are so many idiots whose asses I have to kick! I'll have to start carrying a list just to keep track of 'em all! — Hiromu Arakawa

I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today. — Will Rogers

It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the confessional. You felt that she came to it quite naturally, without transition, so completely did it posses her whenever they were alone. — Henri Barbusse

At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. — Henry Hill

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny. — Zedd

I resemble that worm which crawls through dust,
Lives in the dust, eats dust
Until a passerby's foot crushes it. — Philip K. Dick

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. — Isaac D'Israeli