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Quotes About Deferment

Clem couldn't stand to be in the same room with him. He was giving up his student deferment to show his father what a strong man did.
~ Jonathan Franzen
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.
~ Richard Elman
other words, we are brought up within a system that teaches us to postpone, defer, and eliminate most incoming sense data in favor of a future reward. We live in a feedback loop of perpetual postponement. For the most part, we are not even aware of what we have lost.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a collection of knick-knacks and odds and ends. Here a face. There a sunset.
~ Will Ferguson
Small to greater matters must give way.
~ William Shakespeare
With regard to the current crisis, what we have seen in government bailouts is not so much the solution to the deeper problems behind the economic crisis as it is a deferral of the consequences to some later time.
~ William T. Cavanaugh
In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later.
~ John Knoll
I'm not ready to fuck an empress just yet
~ Robert Silverberg
1031: Jargon for Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, which allows a seller to delay paying taxes on a piece of real estate that is sold for a capital gain through an exchange for a more expensive piece of real estate.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
you saw her coming, your first instinct would be to step aside and let her pass.
~ Anthony Horowitz
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
~ Al Franken
The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.
~ James A. Baldwin
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
~ William Empson
Many institutions of higher learning will grant an 18- to 30-month deferral to prospective missionaries. This will enable you elders and sisters to serve without worrying about where you will begin your advanced education. We are very grateful to leaders of educational institutions who are making such planning possible!
~ Russell M. Nelson
To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it.
~ Gregory Maguire
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Nunca me faltó una comida, aunque pospuse muchas de ellas por tiempo indefinido.
~ Brian Tracy
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
~ Nadine Gordimer
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
~ Thomas Fuller
Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive.
~ Cenk Uygur
I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.
~ John Harsanyi
Some students, he realized, were in the workshop primarily to avoid being drafted, and not because of an overwhelming desire to write. Quietly, he let it be known that he didn't care whether the young men in his classes submitted anything; he wouldn't flunk them, which could result in losing their student deferment and making them eligible for the draft.133
~ Charles J. Shields