Quotes About Delay

Speaking frankly and speaking the truth are two different things entirely. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously. Therefore, should I impart you with no truth at this juncture, that is through no fault of mine. Nor yours.

Next time! In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

I was late, as a player, many times. If you have bad traffic, what are you doing to do? Make a miracle? Sometimes it happens.

Everyone can relate to being stuck in a traffic jam.

That L.A. traffic is no joke.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Certainly, I know from my own work at the Department of Transport the potential chaos that will follow a 'no deal' Brexit. It will cause disruption, delay and deep damage to our economy.

Reality can wait.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

God delays but doesn't forget.

Patience, thought Milligan, that word was invented by dull buggers who couldn't think quick enough.

After dinner, the cubs gathered at the Burger Bear, where they had agreed to meet to celebrate their new jobs. Brother and Sister were late, but the others didn't have to worry about waiting for them to start the celebration. That's because there were no jobs to celebrate.

Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.

Viele, die ihrer Zeit vorausgeeilt waren, mußten auf sie in sehr unbequemen Unterkünften warten.

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.