Quotes About Delay

The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.

Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.

The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. Happiness...

Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. Happiness...

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.

For thirty millennia, three thousand years on Rathillien alone, the Kencyrath had fought the long retreat from world to world, down the Chain of Creation, waiting for their god to manifest himself through them in final battle. Chosen they were and proud, but bitter, too, over long delay, and angry that, the task being set, their god had apparently left them to accomplish it alone.

Hurry. You so slow!

Tout cela fera mal, mais plus tard seulement.

Adam wants to know what took you so long? "Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

If and When were planted, and Nothing grew." —Proverb

Right! It turns out there are at least five ways procrastination can actually be useful in certain instances.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." - Victor Kiam

The term "procrastination" was derived from the Latin pro, meaning "forward, forth, or in favor of," and crastinus, meaning "of tomorrow." Its literal translation can thus be taken to be the moving forward of something to tomorrow, or favoring tomorrow as the ideal time.

what leads us to procrastinate is not just the actual pleasure from those activities, but more importantly, the pleasure we expect to feel in choosing those activities over another. This is the scientific explanation behind procrastination—we anticipate we're going to feel better doing something else, so we go ahead and do it.

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain.

Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education.

I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out. Don't you hate it when you have to wait for the next book in a series to come out?

When you wait a few span or month to hear a finished song, the anticipation adds savor. But after a year excitement begins to sour. -Kvothe, The Name of the Wind, Ch. 12

Sometimes my mouth just starts talking and it takes my mind a little bit to catch up.

Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.