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Quotes About Deferring

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.
~ Cornelia Parker
Differance brings together the two notions of differing and deferring.
~ Nicholas Royle