Quotes About Delay

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

Eventually I may have to become a more solid citizen again, I'm aware of this. But not yet.... Please. Not just yet.

This went on year after year (1 Samuel 1:7). Not day after day, week after week, or even month after month, but year after year. Some of us can barely wait for our coffee to brew in the morning without a nervous breakdown (don't judge me); how in the name of all that is good and holy are we supposed to survive weeks, months, or years of delay for the real blessings?

Delay also has consequences," Kieri said. "Haste brings one set of hazards; delay, another.

I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

One thing led to another, and we were a trifle late going down for dinner.

hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma'am. Like, an emergency, you know." Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted the stumbling

Si longue que soit la vie, elle n'est qu'un long retard de la mort

they were always, she was always, gloriously, just a little late, it made everything worth hurrying for)

Hello Mr. Gluck, she'll say if he does. Sorry I'm late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.

check-cashing place that wasn't open today. No leaf peepers

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

De qué serviría dedicarle reproches a una persona incapaz de analizarlos, y más aún con tantos años de retraso?

Quel soulagement d'avoir trouvé la solution des fiançailles! C'était une réponse liquide en ceci qu'elle ne résolvait rien et remettait le probléme à plus tard. Mais gagner du temps est la grande affaire de la vie.

Impulse decisions can often be our downfall when it comes to sticking to good habits. Do something to buy yourself some time when you're experiencing those 'moments' of weakness, and often, the urge will pass. If you keep the cookies in a box in the basement, you might find it's not worth the effort to go get them.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

If you're engaged more than a year, there's something up. There's lot of debate as to whether one should or shouldn't get married, but when you get engaged, it's a promise to get married, and if you don't just do it within a year, one of the parties is using the excuse of, like, 'I can't find the right venue' to put off the wedding.

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.