A Quote by Statius

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

Statius

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Statius
Roman - Poet
45 - 96

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Statius

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

Statius

What I learned: if you've done something you think the public is going to react badly to, you can't delay it, hide from it, or ignore it. You have to address it head on and take your beating. Always take your beating.

Justin Kan

As a Jew, your passions were so inflamed by that message, you made up a lie to implicate my client, isn't that true?

Roy Payne

When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

Jeff Olson

When you hire a person to plan your wedding, this does not include securing the groom. Plan to get married on Friday the 13th. In years to come this will make it much easier to explain why things turned out badly. To look beautiful at your wedding, take time to plan it. It took me a long time to find two ugly bridesmaids and a frumpy little flower girl.

Phyllis Diller

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

Margaret Trudeau

When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

Ole Hallesby

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

John Arbuthnot

Anger manages everything badly.

Johannes Stadius

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Samuel Johnson

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.