Quotes About Stalling

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.'

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

Also I think you're stalling because you don't want to answer the question.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Ten times as much polishing is definitely not ten times as good. Whether you're polishing a piece of furniture or an idea, the benefits diminish quickly. The polishing turns into stalling.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

For one thing, everyone would insist that assumptions be stated explicitly and tested rigorously not as a stalling tactic or a form of make-work but out of a genuine desire to discover the truth that underlies every project's vision.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

They don't allow a lot of stalling in college, but that's a contradiction, because at the same time they give points for riding the tar out of a guy. And it's too soft on what moves you can use. If you start to twist an arm, it's illegal, if you twist a leg it's illegal. There's no way you can turn a good wrestler over without some pain.

If you are like most human beings, you are one big procrastinator.

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

We just lost our electricity. You want to tell me what's so funny about that?" "It's not exactly funny. It's more of a good news/bad news situation." "In that case, hit me with the good news first." "They're both sort of rolled up into one." "Stop stalling." "All right. Now don't get mad, but . . ." Smothered laughter drifted toward him. "Cal . . . I'm naked.

People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.

Obstruction takes time.

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.

I'm stalling. I know that everything I say is just to put it off-to put off the moment when I'll have to start talking, knowing that there is nothing more for me to say. I'm putting off my silence. Have I been putting off silence for my whole life? but now, in my disparagement of the word, perhaps I'll finally be able to start talking." (14)

Why, Dexter?" Debs repeated, and there was a dangerous edge to her voice that went far behind frustrated anger. "It's kind of complicated," I said, stalling in the hope that either a brilliant idea would occur to me or, if not, the house might be hit by lightning. "Make it simple," she snapped.

It seemed like the military was stalling, and the president wasn't challenging this tactic out of fear of upsetting conservatives. (Not until Obama's second term would the administration painfully come to realize the futility of pandering to people who would never meet them halfway.)

Beneath Ba's bravado, he was a conservative man. He did not lack courage. Neither was he a professional risk-taker like Vann. He had been an officer in a colonial army that had lost its war. He was fighting this second war for the Tory regime of his class. He was doing precisely what could be expected of a man who had grown up in a system where, when in doubt, the best thing to do was to do nothing. He was stalling.