Quotes About Delay

I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it's often sweeter.

Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)

Procrastinators tend to buy self-help books about procrastination, then take them home, put them on a shelf, and never read them.

Your journey will proceed faster with a brief delay.' In other words, don't go off half-cocked, but don't wait until the other fellow shoots you either." A

Well, I guess I can wait two weeks then." "for what?" "to ask her out

What are you thinking?" I asked. "That we should've been doing this a long time ago.

Would've been here sooner," growled Wolfe, calling the pack off with a quick gesture. "But that bitch tied me up. Had to wait for the dogs to gnaw through my ropes.

What's going on?" I asked when he finished. "I'll let you know soon. For now, we have to wait." "Great. My favorite thing to do.

Delay only deepens resentment and makes matters worse. In conflict, time heals nothing; it causes hurts to fester.

18 Still Waiting

It took you long enough to answer your phone." "It's my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don't answer it at all.

Don't be in such a rush. It just slows you down.

Waiting doesn't look like much, but it is something very important. Waiting is passive hunting.

Chen didn't get back to the lab until almost six, only to find Harriet haunting the gun room like the Ghost of Christmas Future. Pike was certain to be impatient with the delay and no doubt would be growing angrier and angrier—at John.

But the thing of it is, I need to be kept. There's work enough to do—there's always that; But behind's behind. The worst that you can do Is set me back a little more behind. I shan't catch up in this world, anyway.

Your greatest power in seduction is your ability to turn away, to make others come after you, delaying their satisfaction.

What the hell are you stopping for, asshole?" Freemont hollered at the car in front of them. "People usually stop for red lights. You should try it sometime.

all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

I promised myself that I would talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the rains of winter swept in, baby leaves sprouted once more, and I still hadn't had the heart, the dil, to even look her in the eye.

If you wait overnight to fight back, all it means is the celebration drink is one day less fresh.