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Quotes About Delay

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.
~ John Day
A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.
~ John Donne
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
~ Emily Eden
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
~ Francois Rabelais
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
~ Jean Paul
If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.
~ Paulo Coelho
I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
~ Steve Martin
Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.
~ Greg Gutfeld
Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.
~ Dean Koontz, Chase
If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
~ Abraham Cowley
I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.
~ Amy Grant
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.
~ Edward Irving
Procrastination is the thief of time.
~ Edward Young
Menunda-nunda itu ibarat seorang pencuri waktu
~ Edward Young
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
~ Edwin W. Edwards
Decisions at the accurate and right time prove transparent justice; otherwise, it falls under the verdict as a conflict of interest if it delays without legitimate reasons.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The delay often holds two terms within it; one technical error, and another one moral corruption.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
To wait is an uttermost, and unpleasant weight.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down.
~ Eileen Wilks
While life is being postponed, it rushes past.
~ Elaine Fantham
One lives in the naive notion that "later" there will be more room than in the entire past.
~ Elias Canetti
The flight was delayed two hours. I had never been unaccompanied in the international terminal before, and wandered around for a while reading my horoscope in magazines and looking in all the shops. Brookstone was selling a "quiet hair dryer" that let you hold a phone conversation while blow-drying your hair, without the other person knowing.
~ Elif Batuman