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Quotes About Delay

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.
~ Kimberly Bryant
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
Greatness comes to those who wait.
~ Anthony Rendon
What's too late?" asked Mogget. "Hold
~ Garth Nix
Have you never thought as you read that months may lie between any pair of words?)
~ Gene Wolfe
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.
~ Richie Havens
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
~ Ben Gibbard
I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.
~ Tom Felton
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
~ Jackie Collins
Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.
~ Terry Riley
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
~ Saint Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
~ Saint Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
~ Saint Augustine
Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later
~ Sam Sheridan
Better hope deferred than none.
~ Samuel Beckett
Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
~ Samuel Johnson
I see not the time of the fulfilling the promise; yet "Though the vision tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come and not tarry." (Hab. 2:3) We are to remember, God can trail his promise, in our seeming, through hell, and the devil's black hands, (as he led Christ through death, the curse, and hell,) and yet fulfill it. When Christ is under a stone, and buried, the gospel seems to be buried.
~ Samuel Rutherford
So many people, Julie thought, stuck in their cars, stuck in their lives, just waiting for someone else to get out of their way.
~ Sara Shepard
Killing time is not an easy job.
~ Haruki Murakami
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
~ John Dryden
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
You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.
~ Arthur Goldberg
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
~ Bob Dylan