Quotes About Delay

will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.

It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by DELAY and TIMIDITY.

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

You know you're the turtle, right? The one who comes and goes as he pleases while I wait for you?

Lighting the fuses shouldn't be taking this kind of time. Furious with the delays, Hitler was screaming to his staff in Berlin, "Brennt Paris?"—"Is Paris burning?

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Obstruction takes time.

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

From 2:30 to 3:30 we put off for tomorrow what we could have done today.

He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Every idiot assumes there's a pressing circumstance about his love that necessitates particular haste, and thereby lays bare the intensity of his love, unwittingly putting a weapon into the hands of his beloved. If his lover is smart, she'll postpone the answer.The moral: Haste delays the fruits of love.

How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to atone for a neglected past by flowers and tears at the funeral!

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

But it could wait until they got back. That was the nice thing about the past—it stayed right where you put it until you needed to pick it up again.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

Every remedy for loneliness only postpones it.

She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.

after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn't

Deje las cosas para más adelante.

He held himself back for a while, but not for long.

The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as "insanely great" as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it—but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule.