Quotes About Delay

Institutional buildings act as if they were designed specifically to prevent change for the organization inside and to convey timeless reliability to everyone outside. When forced to change anyway, as they always are, they do so with expensive reluctance and all possible delay. Institutional buildings are mortified by change.

Sometimes things of magnitude settle over you with excruciating slowness. Say you break your ankle and don't feel it hurting till you've walked another block.

Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine

Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

I have heard that in war haste can be folly, but have never seen delay that was wise.

dilatoriness.

although I have heard of reckless haste in war, I have never seen wise delay.

I don't want to hurt you, he said. Too late.

Maybe this would be a good time to look in another direction and hum the Jeopardy! theme until the need passes.

moved. I told her we could do it tomorrow, but she said not on the Sabbath. Anyway,

On an impulse he picked up the phone and asked for the London number. "One hour delay. Call you back," said the triumphant voice at the other end. "Priority," said Grant. And gave his credentials. "Oh," said the voice, disappointed but game. "Oh well, I'll see what I can do." "On the contrary," Grant said, "I'll see what you can do," and hung up.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is a wrong thing.

If you are like most human beings, you are one big procrastinator.

A committee takes hours to put into minutes what can be done in seconds.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Es wäre unsinnig, das Leben mit Warten auf die zweite Instanz zu verbringen.

Wenn der Weg weit ist, lässt man sich am besten von Anfang an Zeit.

If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

The news is so instantly available to us without delay, interpretation, or a filter. What is hot right now is streamed live without context or perspective.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.