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Quotes About Delay

and left the table, to return a few moments later
~ Alexandre Dumas
Time dribbles through our fingers while we wait.
~ Alice Camille
Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow.
~ Alice Hoffman
Death waits for us all. But she takes the lazy first.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What are you doing?' 'What we should all be doing,' Clover closed his eyes. 'Biding my time.' 'What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?' Clover saw no need to open his eyes. 'Results, woman. Results.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
~ Joe Slovo
It takes time to save time.
~ Joe Taylor
In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix.
~ Joel Spolsky
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
~ Henry Miller
I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
~ Jack White
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
~ John Masefield
Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.
~ Joel Osteen
Waiting is one of life's hardships.
~ Daniel Handler
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
~ Anthony Burgess
In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency
~ Mark Spitz
Life punishes those who come too late.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.
~ Roger L'Estrange
There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
~ S. N. Behrman
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
~ Tobe Hooper
So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
~ Graham Greene
The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground.
~ Dylan Thomas
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
~ E.M. Forster