Quotes About Delay

Suffer more now, suffer less later.

He had overslept. Tomorrow. Mañana Djuna had forgotten this Latin deity: Mañana

The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.

What to Say When Asked for an Estimate You say I'll get back to you.

them. The only trouble is that it could take a while because I'm actually feeling pretty healthy. I hear

Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your life until you never lived it at all. Just so it was possible. Just so long as you could, you never actually did. Just so you didn't ruin it.

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.

how could he wait until midnight?

Revenge is a dish best served cold

This earl, like certain vegetables, did bud and open slowly; nature sometimes delighting to play an aftergame, as well as fortune, which had both their turns and tides in

he's indicted, his lawyer will cause delay after delay, and five years from now we'll

We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, Norman? Yeah? Are you ever going to show me the painting? Man, he said. You are, like, so impatient. I am not, I said. I've been waiting forever. Okay, okay. He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. Tie that on.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come.

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

Une possibilité trop longtemps éludée devient une impossibilité.

Sooner or later usually means too late

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

You misplaced one of your men," Chad remarked. "I did?" "He'll be along shortly with the baggage. He'll need to be untied.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

It will happen but it will take time.

those who strive to delay or hinder the restoration of the church will accomplish nothing. God is its vindicator, and he will judge all peoples.

God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.