Quotes About Delay

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Of course I love silverware in my football career. But sometimes you can't rush from A to Z.

I had so much out there, the world was going crazy about 'Comes Alive!' I didn't need to go and rush into something else. You're only as good as your last record, so don't put one out for a while.

I don't like to rush things.

We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.

It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

Paris didn't get a car until she was 19. Nicky didn't get a car until she was 20.

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

In a simple system, if I pull a lever, I get the expected result. If I turn my wheel, the car turns. In a more complex system, I turn the wheel and there may be a very large amount of lag time.

hyperbolic discounting, and

that's the thing about urgent paperwork: the longer you leave it the less urgent it becomes.

Then came the waiting, a test of patience for even the tenured.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.

I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.

Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

So don't send me up the river yet.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

One wishes for a better outcome, for wiser heads, for a more compassionate public. Yet one wishes in vain. The only comfort, if we can call it that, is that a knowledge of our past failings may equip us to confront evil without delay when evil comes again. For it will.

My poverty was always a source of disappointment to her. If only she could have waited a few years