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Quotes About Delay

Ésa es la trampa esencial, aplicar la muerte a los otros por una prórroga perpetua y un aplazamiento. Y eso está justificado por la necesidad de la existencia. Supone perpetuamente este engaño. "Sé que moriré, pero no les creo", dice Jacques Madaule.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
This poem will never reach its destination.
~ Voltaire
For the next several minutes nothing much happened, biscuit wise.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
why has it taken so long for you to say it?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
~ Unknown
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
~ Fred Brooks
In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.
~ Unknown
My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.
~ Philip Yancey
We wait? No! You can wait! The cardinal can wait! Henry can wait! But I have to dance on the spot, I have to be seen to make progress while actually making none.
~ Philippa Gregory
If he went any slower, it would be Monday by the time he got there," said Josh. "If he went any slower, the Malloys could be moved out and back to Ohio," Wally observed.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
~ Rachel Caine
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
~ Rachel Cohn
I have to figure, with this many stops and starts, surely this train will pull out of the station eventually. What's the big fucking rush?
~ Rachel Cohn
Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.
~ Dean Koontz
Your sixteen days to late you son of a bitch- Travis, Whatchers
~ Dean Koontz
Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.
~ Dean Koontz
I'm late," she told him.
~ Debbie Macomber
It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.
~ Denis Johnson
But war has a long fuse, and a slow match.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Still, the novelty of any letter or package was sufficient that no one suggested opening it until the full measure of enjoyment should have been extracted from speculation about its contents.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.
~ Kurt Vile
I started school in the 4th grade and it was a real drag.
~ Cree Summer
Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.
~ Jim Morris