Quotes About Delay

So why did Senior procrastinate in giving him his money?

Such a time never came.

The doctors found evidence of cancer but were unsure of their diagnosis and delayed telling him until February 1905.

Although scheduled to start in early March, the House and Senate took more than a month to muster quorums. In a significant piece of symbolism, the House met on the ground floor of Federal Hall and provided open galleries for visitors.

Waiting is a skill like anything else.

Surprise was always good. Delay was always fatal. Guys who let a situation unfold in its own good time were just stockpiling problems for themselves.

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.

Are you going to write the accident report?" Summer asked. "For Willard? Not yet." "He'll expect it today." "I know. But I'm going to make him ask, one more time." "Why?" "I guess because it's a fascinating experience. Like watching maggots writhing around in something that died." "What died?" "My enthusiasm for getting out of bed in the morning.

Waiting is a skill like anything else." Jack Reacher

have gambled and stalled.

Waiting is a skill, just like everything else. ~Jack Reacher

would take at least another hour for

IT WAS ANOTHER HOUR BEFORE ANYTHING SHOWED UP.

OK, we'll make it another time

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again

Today we know that there are other solar systems only tens of light years away. Had the Golden Age continued unabated, we might by now have sent probes exploring them. We might have landed on the moon in the year 969 instead of 1969. We might have an understanding of space and life that is unimaginable to us today. Instead, events occurred that would delay the progress begun by the Greeks by a millennium.

At seven p.m., hope is sparked again when some new chirpy airline employee announces that a new plane without that nasty mechanical problem - the aviation of the clap - will arrive around 9 o'clock. Apparently, the old plane would now be used as a decoy plane so that when a plane wasn't available it could be loaded with passengers who could sit there thinking that they would be leaving in fifteen minutes.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day ." "It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected. "No, it ca'n't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know

Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!

she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to

Why couldn't you have told me so Three quarters of an hour ago, You prince of all the asses?

Sudden, hell. I've been hard for two months.