Defer Quotes
51 quotes by 45 authors
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Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the…
— Frederick Lenz
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I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.
— Billy Crudup
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It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit,…
— Mary Ann Glendon
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We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you…
— Shimon Peres
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Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum…
— John Cleese
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Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without…
— Ann Landers
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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not…
— Mia Hamm
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My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes.…
— Bill O'Reilly
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to…
— William Penn
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to…
— Gregory Maguire
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I know I’m Charonte and we defer to our females, but you have to respect the fact that I’m Charonte and we protect our females…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to…
— Sarah Dessen
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You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already…
— Denis Diderot
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Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,†then that is what we will be. And it is not for…
— Marianne Williamson
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
— William Shakespeare
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Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good…
— Ben Jonson
Who Wrote These Defer Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 51 Defer Quotes, led by these top contributors: