Quotes About Delay

using it as an excuse to delay a decision until she could see whether he was going to be able to handle this sort of power.

Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

Simply delaying its arrival in a community or slowing its spread once there—just such minor successes—would have saved many, many thousands of lives.

All this together is called the "immune response," and once the immune system is mobilized, it is formidable indeed. But all this takes time. The delay can allow infections to gain a foothold in the body, even to advance in raging cadres that can kill.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

I'm that horrible friend that reads your text then puts the phone down to do something and forgets to reply until 3 hours later.

There are times in your life that you have to live without the things you really want and you do so knowing that if you wait long enough, you will be rewarded.

I hate being the best procrastinator sometimes.

Don't trade what you want most for what you want for the moment.

All good things are worth waiting for and worth fighting for.

But though he had saved them, he came too late. Too many lives had been lost to his pride. And so they gave him no gratitude, no gifts. Only their hatred for not having spared them sooner.

Because, dear King of Argos, if war comes after some diplomacy or delay, we do not seem so much the villains.

14. I have enjoyed telling people that I am writing a book about blue without actually doing it.

speed is a way to prevent ourselves from having to deal with something we do not want to face.

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How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!

We buy time where we may." "You bought yourself time," Oi agreed. "I don't think it's of very good quality.

I don't know that it will matter even then," Cardenia said. "I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living

It's funny how you want to do a thing and never do it.