Quotes About Delay

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. —LEONARDO DA VINCI

Time is getting on.... Yes, bad luck to it. It always gallops when you want it to walk, and walks when you want it to gallop, like an ill-trained horse.

A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait."

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

They do not live but linger.

Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.

LeBlanc's law: Later equals never.

We've all looked at the mess we've just made and then have chosen to leave it for another day. We've all felt the relief of seeing our messy program work and deciding that a working mess is better than nothing. We've all said we'd go back and clean it up later. Of course, in those days we didn't know LeBlanc's law: Later equals never.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. —Aristotle

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

The Elders always said I spoke an hour before I thought.

Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.

Taim will have to wait

but he never did seem to get around to reading the books he meant to read.

If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take.

Things that are impossible usually take time.