Quotes About Delay

We just didn't make it" to the airport.

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

Exactly fourteen minutes behind schedule I walked into the law offices of Dewy, Cheatum and Howe.

Trying to get a Phoenix build going is like playing Legend of Zelda, if it were written by a sadist, forcing her to adventure far and wide to find hidden keys scattered across the kingdom and given only measly clues from uncaring NPCs. But when you finally finish the level, you can't actually play the next level—you have to mail paper coupons to the manufacturer and wait weeks to get the activation codes.

To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.

Dr. Seuss books, Oh, the Places You'll Go. The book describes the dreaded Waiting Place, where people wait for the fish to bite, wind to fly a kite, for Uncle Jake, for pots to boil, or a better break …

I got to a traffic light, and it turned red. I said, "Why me?"

Those who are entitled to it get it sooner or later.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

Ganging up on a short-range interest isn't the same thing as killing it.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Any more troubles can wait their turn.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.

Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.

I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.

She began to feel that if there had ever been a bus she had by now certainly missed it.

The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

It's a long time between drinks.