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Tag Name "Dispatch" (23)

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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.
Lord Chesterfield
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Dispatch is the soul of business.
Lord Chesterfield
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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?
Mencius
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles
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Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station.
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
William Hazlitt
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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
Charles Caleb Colton
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How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?
Isaac Newton
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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
Jane Austen
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A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.
John Adams
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The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth will follow no causes bit its conclusions will not support the Administration, but criticize it will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship.
Joseph Pulitzer
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The Set animal’s jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical barrier twice my normal size, and kicked Leroy into a wall. Good! said Horus. Now dispatch the beast to the netherworld! Quiet man. I’m doing all the work.
Rick Riordan
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.
Stephen King
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Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Thomas Paine
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
William J. Brennan
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
Abraham Lincoln
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Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.
Ambrose Bierce
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All the angels in the whole universe care about you and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can do it.
David Jeremiah
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Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.
Jack Abramoff
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The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.
Joaquin Sorolla