Quotes About Postponement

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.

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

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

To answer your question, how will it be done?" the old man had said. "How shall we accomplish the postponement of Satan establishing his Antichrist government? I am not at all certain it can be done. Notice I said postponement of, not stop, its establishment. I only know I must try to do my part to hold it off as long as possible.

A guerra não se evita, apenas se adia com vantagem para os outros

Owing, among other factors, to the exceedingly slow working of the lunacy commission, Bob's trial was postponed until the fall of 1938. By then the city had a new district attorney: Thomas E. Dewey, the fearless young "gangbuster" whose relentless crusade against racketeers like Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano would propel him to the governor's mansion in Albany and two runs for the White House as the Republican presidential candidate in 1944 and 1948.

When in dread, my rule was always to procrastinate.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.

'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.

Dont do today what you could put off till tomorrow.

Perhaps the postponement in modern culture of the historically relevant challenges of adolescents

La seguridad de saberme capaz para algo mejor me puso en las manos la postergación, que al fin de cuentas es un arma terrible y suicida.

5. Procrastination

War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

there is no replacement as such in that pleasure retains its dominance. The reality principle "does not abandon the intention of ultimately obtaining pleasure, but it nevertheless demands and carries into effect the postponement of satisfaction, the abandonment of a number of possibilities of gaining satisfaction and the temporary toleration of unpleasure as a step on the long indirect road to pleasure.