Quotes About Delay

Justice deferred is justice denied.

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.

The world can wait. I can't.

Sometimes you plug the hole any way you can, and worry about fixing the boat later. If the choices are sinking today or tomorrow, I'll take tomorrow.

again. Before closing the door I waited

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

had mechanical problems and he got stuck in Miami. The time before

We'll finish our business, and as soon as we get the chance, we'll come back." The minute the words were out of his mouth, he realized his mistake.

At the heart of systems thinking lie three deceptively simple concepts: stocks and flows, feedback loops, and delay. They sound straightforward enough, but the mind-boggling business begins when they start to interact. Out of their interplay emerge many of the surprising,

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

As software pundit Fred Brooks once observed, "How does a project get to be a year late?... One day at a time." In

Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

until it was almost too late.

But rather, his "delay" simply reveals his loving patience toward you, because he does not want any to perish but all to come to repentance.k

The best remedy for anger is delay.

I realize that I keep saying that I did not find this out and that out until later. But eventually I did, and eventually, I promise, I will tell you all about it. As John Calvin himself says, "Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

One who delays his work is always wrestling with ruin.

In this way, the Odyssey's hero embodies one of its central themes, which is that the capacity to defer satisfaction and endure suffering is as necessary for success as the ability to perform brilliant feats.

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.