Quotes About Delay

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

He is going to pay the forfeit: it will be paid in five minutes more. Let him be

This may be premature. I have set it down too soon, perhaps. But let it stand.

There is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today—or even this week.

God simply does not run this world by our timetable. What feels like a delay to us is right on schedule by His calendar. He often makes us wait, not to frustrate us, but to deepen our trust in Him.

Therefore, the delays we face are not a denial of His promises; rather, they are an integral part of His strategy to arrange all the details and get us positioned for His excellent plan.

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.

He who laughs last thinks slowest.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

I moustache you a question, but I'll shave it for later.

...like stealing the juice from tomorrow's fruit.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Do not put off until tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.

One of these days is none of these days.

Between to-day and to-morrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

Time sure flies when you skip an hour.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people apologize to corpses?

People who are most strongly attached to a belief in an afterlife are more likely to try to delay death when it's clearly imminent. That doesn't make any logical sense. If people believe in a blissful afterlife, then logically, you'd think they'd accept their death gracefully, and would even welcome it. But it makes perfect sense when you think of religion, not as a way of genuinely coping with the fear of death, but as a way of putting it on the back burner.

he came down. 'Two days. I had a

I'll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.

It can't be that late already. It can't be. She's had all day, all night to say good-bye to him and she hasn't even begun.

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani entered the building without a hard hat at approximately eleven AM, but ultimately residents were not allowed to return before demolition commenced eight hours later.

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after