Quotes About Delay

My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then - boom, boom, boom - several come in for a landing.

I want to be a 'coffee guy,' but I just haven't started.

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

Success has taken its own sweet time to reach me.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

When are you coming back? When I'm done being gone.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

I just celebrated my thirtieth birthday. Ten years late, but I did it.

Wolfe: 'Our next step is obvious, but it must wait...' Archie: It was nice to know the next step was obvious, but it would have been even nicer to know what it was.

Actually, no, I couldn't wait.

Good things come to those who wait, but shit pretty much shows up right away, doesn't it?

Self-control issues are most likely to arise when choices and their consequences are separated in time.

I meant to do my work today but . . .

He waits too long, and time replies for him.

they were dreamers who felt no urgency about bringing their dreams to fruition.

Slow" works on an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.

You only delay your death. Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over.

sorry,no thanks,if i was going to die it could wait until tomorrow morning.

Stall! Delay! Obfuscate! "Let's," said Flora.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

It seemed to Gilly that everything in this world that you can't stand to wait one extra minute for is always late.