Quotes About Postponement

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One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

the writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement.

Responsibility neither plays and manipulates as politically, nor it turns postponed for another time; as a fact, action on time displays the excellence of responsibility; otherwise, it fails and loses credibility accordingly, as its context.

he was the same judge who had just given Mitchell and Stans, the Watergate defendants, who did not have one fraction of the valid reasons for an adjournment that we had, an extended postponement.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

Pissing and thinking have a lot in common, he thought. You can put them both off.. But not forever.

we chose to hold off.

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the Council of Florence forbade the postponement of Baptism even for forty or eighty days. Since the Tridentine Council it is a strict ecclesiastical precept that infants must be baptized as soon as possible after birth.

There were always well-developed plans in Jeeter's mind for the things he intended doing; but somehow he never got around to doing them. One day led to the next, and it was much more easy to say he would wait until tomorrow. When that day arrived, he invariably postponed action until a more convenient time. Things had been going along in that easy way for almost a lifetime now; nevertheless

You hate your destination so much you want to postpone showing up for as long as possible.

Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.

If you are like most human beings, you are one big procrastinator.

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled "Pending" and postponed any further consideration.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.