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Quotes About Delay

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
~ Josh Billings
When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.
~ Paulo Coelho
life is long between the desire and the spasm.
~ T. S. Eliot
Maybe in time. There's always time
~ Jennifer Niven
I'm sick of waiting for karma. Karma can suck it.
~ Jenny Han
Also I think you're stalling because you don't want to answer the question.
~ Jenny Han
Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.
~ Jenny McCarthy
Reed: "What's up?" Vanessa: "There must be an accident or something." Reed: "I'm the accident." Vanessa: "I couldn't agree more." Reed: "What I meant was, those people out there are waiting for me.
~ Jenny O'Connell
With the inexorable slowness of a tortoise orgasm
~ Jeremy Robinson
usual, the prospects were required to stay outside the actual
~ Jerry Langton
Time sure flies when you skip an hour.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
Took you long enough!,' she said, and planted a kiss on his lips.
~ Jessica Day George
What is leave? – a pause that only makes everything after it so much worse.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
To Winston Churchill, it was long overdue. In his memoir-like history The World Crisis, 1916–1918, he said of Wilson, "What he did in April, 1917, could have been done in May, 1915. And if done then what abridgment of the slaughter; what sparing of the agony; what ruin, what catastrophes would have been prevented; in how many million homes would an empty chair be occupied today; how different would be the shattered world in which victors and vanquished alike are condemned to live!
~ Erik Larson
The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.
~ Erik Larson
We noted that the ego delays responses in order to permit a richer reaction: it allows the organism to choose between several alternatives, reviewed in awareness in lieu of immediate action.
~ Ernest Becker
There is a lot of time between now and the fall term. There is a lot of time between now and the day after tomorrow if you want to put it that way ...
~ Ernest Hemingway
Maybe I'll be able to later. I can do nearly everything later.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The bigger the change we hope for, the longer we must be willing to invest, work for, and wait for it.
~ Andy Crouch
Te llaman porvenir porque no vienes nunca. Te llaman: porvenir, y esperan que llegues como un animal manso a comer en su mano. Pero tú permaneces más allá de las horas, agazapado no se sabe dónde. ...Mañana! Y mañana será otro día tranquilo un día como hoy, jueves o martes, cualquier cosa y no eso que esperamos aún, todavía, siempre.
~ Ángel González
We set off without them, and we were making good time until we had a small technical problem—a large technical problem, actually. Silas put his foot through the bottom of the boat.
~ Angie Sage
Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
~ Ann Brashares
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
~ Terry Waite
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
~ Soren Kierkegaard