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Quotes About Delay

Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.
~ Brandon Sanderson
God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him.
~ Mac Canoza
All good things to those who wait.
~ Hannibal
I guess good things come to those who wait.
~ Kurt Busch
Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.
~ Michael Schumacher
You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.
~ Derek Landy
It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.
~ Mark Beeson
A bloody good thing, but too late.
~ Noel Coward
The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.
~ Demetri Martin
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
~ Ivan Turgenev
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Short term gain will result in long term pain
~ Umair Aziz Attari
One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
~ Alan Cohen
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
~ Terry Pratchett
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
~ Walter Scott
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
~ Walter Scott
Someday is not a day of the week.
~ Janet Dailey
Yes, about ten minutes.
~ Duke of Wellington
I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".
~ Mitch Hedberg
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
~ Rita Coolidge