Quotes About Delay

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

When I left college, I just thought I could play tennis to delay getting a regular job and go there and try to make ends meet. But it's been a very different experience for me, fortunately.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

And it occurs to me that some way back I began a sentence that I never finished...

On the way to Santa Cruz Dirk and Duck stopped along the coast to surf. They stopped so many times to surf and eat (they finished the avocado sandwiches in the first fifteen minutes and bought sunflower seeds, licorice, peaches, and Foster's Freeze soft ice cream along the way) that they didn't get to Santa Cruz until late that night.

It would take just a little more to drink and just a little more time.

Somehow the waiting is harder than the battle itself.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —

Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting for it.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting fot it. (Epígraf a Laszló Krasznahorkai, «Tango Satánico», citació de Kafka, «El castell»)

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score.

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

In Hollywood, you serve no wine before it's time, give the haters no time to hate until it's too late.