Quotes About Postponed

I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

judgement has been postponed so that the people of God might witness to God's kingdom and all might repent and enter the kingdom of God.

Some people are like blisters----they show up after the work is done.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

The celebration had to be postponed: Carol had ovarian cancer. She refused to be gloomy about it.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

sour taste of obligation postponed

And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

The present occupier of the house is a certain Mrs. Reginald Morton, with whom we shall also be much concerned in these pages, but whose introduction to the reader shall be postponed for awhile.

I expect we'll receive an invitation for dinner from their Highnesses, at second-blue, which will serve as an informal welcome." I took a deep breath. "All right. Until then we're free? Let's walk around," I said. "I'm not tired or hungry, but I still feel stiff from--from sitting inside that coach for so long." I did not want to refer to my ride or the postponed wager. If she noticed my hesitation and quick recovery, she gave no sign.

In the old days, would-be conquerors often executed messengers who brought them bad news. It was not the messengers' fault that they had to disturb the emperor's image of himself as a world conqueror, but unfortunately they did, and they suffered the consequence of the anxiety they aroused. It is still worth a man's neck to disturb an emperor's image. Nowadays the ax falls more subtly and the execution may be postponed, but sooner or later it comes.

For the first time in its illustrious 136-year history, the Global Kennel Society postponed its main event due to green slime. All the Best

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

I postponed this attempt for some months longer; for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I shall fail.

The announcement of a triple meeting could only mean that the project had been cancelled or postponed, or changed. We had ten minutes to ruminate on which was the worst fate. If canceled or postponed, our only project went away, and with it, all hope of looking busy. Looking busy was essential to our feeling vital to the agency, to mention nothing of being perceived as such by the partners, who would conclude by our labors that is was impossible to lay us off.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

The streets are still impassable, so the funeral has been postponed indefinitely. I think the family

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.

Jeeves. Sir? Are you busy just now? No, sir. I mean, not doing anything in particular? No, sir. It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; but, if you desire my services, this can easily be postponed, or, indeed, abandoned altogether.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.