Quotes About Delayed

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

He was driving into a world where the owls roosted with the chickens, where folks kept whippoorwills for pets and didn't get the Saturday Night Opry till Monday morning.

Fifth, in a world that's increasingly geared toward short-termism and instant gratification, a tremendous advantage can be gained by those who move consistently in the opposite direction

It's all about deferred gratification," says Sleep. "When you look at all the mistakes you make in life, private and professional, it's almost always because you reached for some short-term fix or some short-term high. . . . And that's the overwhelming habit of people in the stock market.

A good teacher must be content to be a sower rather than a reaper," he said. "Teachers must not expect to see immediate, specific, concrete results of their efforts. If they have any effect upon their students, it will show up later in life, long after their students have left them." The same can be said of the pastoral ministry.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Live no one else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow

the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...

Some people are like blisters----they show up after the work is done.

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

I had a lot of ear infections when I was younger, so I didn't learn to swim until I was about 14.

The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.

Sometimes the best gifts aren't convenient at the time.

For most parents, the true thank-yous come much later.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.