Quotes About Delay

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

They forget to mention that he is the slowest mover in the universe; that his Eye that never sleeps, might as well, since it takes it a century to see what any other eye would see in a week; that in all history there is not an instance where he thought of a noble deed first, but always thought of it just a little after somebody else had thought of it and done it. He arrives then, and annexes the dividend.

There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it. I only proposed to stay in Nevada three months—I had no thought of staying longer than that. I meant to see all I could that was new and strange, and then hurry home to business. I little thought that I would not see the end of that three-month pleasure excursion for six or seven uncommonly long years!

Between 1870 and 1905 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) tried repeatedly, and at long intervals, to write (or dictate) his autobiography, always shelving the manuscript before he had made much progress. By

When you wait you start feeling deserved.

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

That same day he wrote to Austen Chamberlain, to explain that he would soon have to ask for 'substantial repayments' of French and Italian war debts, already more than six years overdue.

A right delayed is a right denied.

For years now I have heard the word Wait! It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This Wait has almost always meant Never. We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that justice too long delayed is justice denied.

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

before I could get the words out of my mouth.

He decided to put off the follow-up appointment. It was ultimately a year before he returned to see Benzel. A repeat MRI showed the tumor had enlarged.