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Quotes About Delay

Someday is not a day of the week.
~ Janet Dailey
A stationary bike is a device that epitomizes the phrase hurry up and wait.
~ Jarod Kintz
So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while
~ Jason Fried
nos detiene a veces lo que no nos importa—
~ Javier Marías
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
~ E.M. Forster
Large-scale waiting" is waiting for the next vacation, for a better job, for the children to grow up, for a truly meaningful relationship, for success, to make money, to be important, to become enlightened. It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living
~ Eckhart Tolle
THE 4.15 FROM VICTORIA TO Lewes had been held up at Three Bridges in consequence of a derailment and, though John Lexman was fortunate enough to catch a belated connection to Beston Tracey, the wagonette which was the sole communication between the village and the outside world had gone.
~ Edgar Wallace
That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.
~ Edith Wharton
That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seeds, but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest, she oversleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.
~ Edith Wharton
Theodora usually found that her good intentions matured too late for practical results.
~ Edith Wharton
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
~ Edith Wharton
By this time, the Julian was already eleven days behind the Gregorian calender. But it was better to be a little late than to agree with the Pope!
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Someone in the garden is delaying the passing of time.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I don't want to know anything but this perpetual wailing, this clatter in the night, this delay, this infamy, this pursuit, this inexistence.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Mi madre lo decía: hay un reloj de esperar y otro de despedirse; el de esperar siempre atrasa.
~ Alejandro Casona
Passa un segon com passa tota una vida quan passem la vida esperant una llum que triga.
~ Alejandro Palomas
It took me about fifteen minutes to get to the hospital, through traffic that existed in an entirely different space-time.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
numbers. "I'll be back with the phone in a few
~ Alex Berenson
Some people are like blisters----they show up after the work is done.
~ Alfred E. Newman
Washington is not good at getting things done.
~ Carlos Lopez-Cantera
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.
~ David Frum
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
~ Edwin Edwards
It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
~ O. Henry