Deferred Quotes
56 quotes by 46 authors
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Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
— Sun Tzu
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
— James Ellis
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The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
— Umar
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
— Joseph Fort Newton
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a…
— Charles Perrault
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Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
— Bill Willingham
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The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
— Steven Rattner
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What is deferred is not avoided.
— Thomas More
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Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This…
— Charlie Munger
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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
— Pico Iyer
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Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not…
— Chris Gardner
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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?
— Langston Hughes
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A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit…
— Paula Giddings
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It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven…
— Max Scherzer
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What happens to a dream deferred?
— Langston Hughes
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Better hope deferred than none.
— Samuel Beckett
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