Karin Fossum Quotes

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Convenience is the American way.

Everybody wants instant gratification for everything. It's all got to be like fast food. You want a hamburger now, you get it now. Hey, even when McDonald's started out, it took them a couple of minutes to make your burger and get it to you. Now, it's all wham, bam. That's tough enough on a burger. It's impossible with a relationship.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.

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

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.