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Quotes About Deferred

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
~ Anonymous
There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.
~ Anonymous
sour taste of obligation postponed
~ Roland Merullo
there are only two philosophies of life: one is first the feast, then the headache; the other is first the fast and then the feast. Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice are always sweetest and most enduring.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
~ Jean Chatzky
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
~ Arthur Laffer
tragic Powell, the Company Man Who Could Have Been Great, who was offered the mantle by all the polls but deferred to the Boss's Callow Son and vouched for him
~ Garrison Keillor
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life. —Proverbs 13:12
~ Gary Chapman
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
~ Marilynne Robinson
This whole town does look like whatever hope becomes after it begins to weary a little, then weary a little more. But hope deferred is still hope.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The other type of annuity is called a deferred annuity. This simply means you give the insurance company money either in one lump sum or over a period of years, and instead of receiving
~ Anthony Robbins
First, let's be clear: there are really only two general categories of traditional annuities: immediate annuities and deferred annuities.
~ Anthony Robbins
Her great weapon was her weakness, the massive deterrent to which all deferred.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
~ Anthony Pratt
Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
~ Patti Smith
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
~ Langston Hughes
Punishments hereafter are suffer'd by one's self; and the world takes no cognizance whether this God has reveng'd 'em or not, 'tis done so secretly, and deferr'd so long.
~ behn aphra ii
Because I am self-aware, because I have imagination and conscience, I can examine my deepest values. I can realize that the script I'm living is not in harmony with those values, that my life is not the product of my own proactive design, but the result of the first creation I have deferred to circumstances and other people.
~ Stephen R. Covey
by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when dreams come true, there is life and joy.
~ bible quotes iv
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
~ Bill Willingham
Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.
~ Sigmund Freud
Among the things that should make your antennae twitch are technical terms like "capitalized," "deferred," and "restructuring"—and plain-English words signaling that the company has altered its accounting practices, like "began," "change," and
~ Benjamin Graham
sickness of hope deferred
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk