Quotes About Delay

Most of human life is defined by waiting

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

A watched supper dish never fills!

Waiting for somebody does that. It turns minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to several lifetimes.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

Die, damn you! Maybe tomorrow. Just now I'm busy.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

Aries: "I was going to do that but then you told me to."

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

I'm stuck in traffic on the highway to hell.

there. Maybe it didn't come yet. I couldn't

Owing, among other factors, to the exceedingly slow working of the lunacy commission, Bob's trial was postponed until the fall of 1938. By then the city had a new district attorney: Thomas E. Dewey, the fearless young "gangbuster" whose relentless crusade against racketeers like Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano would propel him to the governor's mansion in Albany and two runs for the White House as the Republican presidential candidate in 1944 and 1948.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.

Scarlett O'Hara . . . I'll think about that tomorrow. XOXO,

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.

Cast up the heart flops over gasping 'Love' a foolish fish which tries to draw its breath from flesh of air And no one there to hear its death among the sad bushes where the world rushes by in a blather of asphalt and delay

Friction thus caused delay and confusion. Action in war became like walking in water, and vision was regularly obscured. "All actions take place in something virtually akin to dusk, which in addition, like fog or moonlight, gives objects an exaggerated size and a grotesque view.

As will be discussed in detail below, it is my contention that such reluctance or delay will actually result in the risk of greater police force being used, because the officer who loses the initiative to an assaultive person will experience an instinctive urgency to "catch up" to protect them from the threat.

Our procedure has always been haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream. What we need to fear is the archaic formalism and the watery sentiment that obstructs, delays, and defeats the prosecution of crime.