Quotes About Delay

I have to return some videotapes

One can never wait too long.

If you're gonna do something tonight that you'll regret tomorrow morning, sleep late

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed

fast ones, if you're impatient." She was silent a little after which she brought out: "Oh I guess it'll be fast enough!

They indeed had been wondrous for others while he was but wondrous for himself; which, however, was exactly the cause of his haste to renew the wonder by getting back, as he might put it, into his own presence. That had quickened his steps and checked his delay. If his visit was prompt it was because he had been separated so long from the part of himself that alone he now valued.

If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

John, did Peter Owen (publisher) send you a copy of my book about books? If not I shall flay him. You were first on the list. But the English move slowly. They are all constipated, water-logged, worm-ridden, damn them!

Yes, Death brings us again to our friends. They are waiting for us, and we shall not long delay. They have gone before us, and are like the angels in heaven. They stand near the borders of the grave to welcome us, with the countenance of affection, which they wore on earth; yet more lovely, more radiant, more spiritual! O, he spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels!

Learn To Labor and to 'WAIT

Time, time; if I but only had the time

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

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

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.

We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

The kosher community tends to follow often several years behind the general societal trends.

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.