To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.
Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.
It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.
