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Quotes About Delay

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise." 2 Peter 3:9.
~ Ellen G. White
The nature of the conflict permitted no middle ground, no compromise. And, since Lucifer would abide no delay, everyone had, by now, taken a side.
~ Ellen Gunderson Traylor
It was the right and responsible thing to do, so they put it off until later.
~ Ellen Potter
It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
~ Elvis Costello
God has never denied & can't deny anybody whatever that's due to him/her. Yes, he only delays. But he does pay all in due course i.e. at the right/due time.
~ Emeasoba George
Destinul e-o amînare continu? a sinuciderii.
~ Emil Cioran
At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
~ baldwin james v
By six-twenty she'd begun to fear that he had been tied up longer than expected. The switchboard was off; he couldn't get through if he tried.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Nearly twenty-past one!' said Harriet, as they sat down to their meal. 'The Archdeacon has delayed everything. I suppose he imagined Emily would be cooking.' 'I don't suppose he thought about it at all, men don't as a rule,' said Belinda, 'they just expect meals to appear on the table and they do.
~ Barbara Pym
You may produce lunch two hours late, but you make it worth the eating, Janie.
~ Barbara Trapido
It changes, but in some lives change is a long time coming.
~ Barbara Vine
I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.
~ Ian Brown
I recently purchased an iPad 2 because I didn't want to wait for the iPad 3 and iPad 4.
~ Kevin Nealon
'Raging Bull' was badly received at first. It took 10 years for it to be recognised.
~ Thelma Schoonmaker
Sometimes you think that a reconstruction project can be done more quickly than you expected.
~ Roberto Mancini
It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.
~ Shane McAnally
In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me, and they were all late to the game. I'd be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out.
~ Ariel Pink
There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.
~ Kevin Garnett
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
~ Antony Jay
I didn't get round to having children until I was 35, and then I wasn't around very much.
~ Tu Youyou
There was a film which I did many, many, many years ago which took 14 years to make. Fourteen years. It was a film called 'Oonch Neech Beech' and in one shot, Shashi Kapoor goes out for a jog and when he reaches, he is 40 kilos heavier!
~ Shabana Azmi
Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
~ Michael Eisner
But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some new power converters and Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ George Lucas
I delayed making a decision until it was too late, much to my subsequent regret.
~ George S. Clason