Quotes About Delay

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

If the world is a Watch, as the Deists claim, then it is evidently two minutes behind. —James Beresford, The Miseries of Human Life

Paul thought of how they'd kept delaying buying plane tickets to visit his parents in Taiwan - in December, which was next month, he knew - as if in tacit understanding that their relationship wouldn't last that long. Paul felt himself trying to interpret the situation, as if there was a problem to be solved, but there didn't seem to be anything, or maybe there was, but he was three or four skill sets away from comprehension, like an amoeba trying to create a personal webpage using CSS.

El corazón de cada Pronostic consiste en un circuito con un retraso negativo del tiempo; envía una señal atrás en el tiempo.

Sometimes it's good to wait. The anticipation makes it more fun when you get there.

I have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn't come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully come back to it another time.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Americans are too speedy.

Plans for a Spider-Man film had gone on for so long. It was starting to look like there would never be a film. There was always a different actor, or a different director they were talking about.

Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

But that was one of those errands that, if not achieved in the first twelve hours, would remain undone centuries later.

My plan," said Egdod, "is still unfolding. Pent up for so long in the Fastness, I have learned patience. It is a faculty you have lost, ruling the Land from your high Palace where all things come quickly, and you confuse delay with failure.

with me,it is 'better never than late

Guerra não se evita, mas se adia em favor de outrem.

war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others;

que no debemos dejar nacer un desorden para evitar una guerra, pues acabamos no evitándola, y sólo la diferimos, lo que redunda a la postre en perjuicio nuestro.