Quotes About Delay

The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.

the speed of the tongue should always be some seconds behind the speed of thought, but certainly not the other way around.

how should I put it . . . the speed of her tongue is miscalibrated. The delay on the tongue should always be a few seconds over the speed of thought and never the other way around.

To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you'll be way too late.

These interludes, which impede the advance of the seal and trumpet cycles toward their climax, inject into the experience of hearing or reading the Book of Revelation a taste of the divine delay, which prolongs the time for repentance while it deters the martyrs' longed-for vindication: "How long, () Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" (6:111).

One who laughs last always laughs longest, because he/she gets the joke last.

He ought to be in the minuet of life, but he was still fucking around in the adagio.

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.

You got stuck in a wall?" she said. "For how long?" "A few minutes. Half an hour. An hour at the most. Maybe two. Or a day. Remember that day I called Valkyrie and told her to take the afternoon off? Yeah, I was stuck in a wall.

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Perhaps Germany will serve as a warning," said Arvid. "May they learn from us to snuff out fascism in America when the first sparks arise and not delay until democracy goes up in flames all around them." "This could never happen in America. A nation that elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never elect a madman populist.

How long must we wait for the lilies to bud?

Why joys so scantily disburse, Why Paradise defer, Why floods are served to us in bowls,— I speculate no more.

Victory comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost To take it.

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

Human life can be liken to that of a flower, its beautiful when it blooms, though yours may delay but when it blooms, it will be the rarest and the most beautiful of all.

Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

man, two quarters, a twist of a knob, that kid should have fallen into our laps by now!

The ball never fucking landed.

Time is a tease. Time is a tease–because everything has to happen in its own time.

There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.