Quotes About Delay

All I propose is an attack that will paralyze the Americans, for perhaps six months. This attack is not about victory, about winning a war...It is about delaying them, keeping them back, damaging their military might and pride. -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

Chance waited patiently until she stopped.

waiting for her movie to start," and that she'd almost missed out on her life waiting for it.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers

Nothing is possible without time

The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.

You work very slowly. In fact, if you went any slower you'd be in reverse.

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ?Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ?tis the key of gladness.

Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

You have to eat the first piece of candy Before you can eat the whole bag.

Procrastination is simply a way of deceiving yourself into believing your actions will be easier in the future.

It seems to me that if God felt it best to delay marriage into the latter part of your twenties, He would also see fit to delay the hormonal urge to want to have sex. Or perhaps it was never His intent to delay marriage in an effort to "become more independent," "enjoy singlehood," and "build our careers.

In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours.

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.