Quotes About Delay

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

I am very impatient and get frustrated if results are not delivered in time.

Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.

Patience wins the race.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Till you feed us, right and wrong can wait.

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring, that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

the senselessness of indefinitely delayed gratification.

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

A lot of people on holiday get very intolerant of things that go wrong, but getting wound up about the plane being late won't make it come any sooner.

The desire to start something at the "right" time is usually just a justification for delay. In almost every case, the best time to start is now.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

You hate your destination so much you want to postpone showing up for as long as possible.

Wenn die Welt einmal untergehen sollte, ziehe ich nach Wien, denn dort passiert alles fünfzig Jahre später.

We aren't there yet,' said Bouvard. Let's hope not,' said Pecuchet.

Frédéric pensait à la chambre qu'il occuperait là-bas, au plan d'un drame, à des sujets de tableaux, à des passions futures. Il trouvait que le bonheur mérité par l'excellence de son âme tardait à venir.

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

The next time there's something that you can't live without, wait for a week and then see if you're still alive.

swim. I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing.

She coughed into her fist. "I, ahem, don't want to sound didactic or fictitious in any manner," she began, doing a great Woody impression. She had his timing, the speech delay tactics. She had the hand mannerisms. She had the New York accent. It was her best work. "But I may have some important information." Myron

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.

Look how long it took to build the Freedom Tower, and we wanted that. It took 15 years.