Quotes About Delay

Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

There is always time to take more time.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Next time someone tells you 'never,' remember that means 'not for at least one hour.'

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

Time needs another minute.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.