Delay Quotes

378 quotes by 320 authors

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a… — Winston Churchill
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act… — Frank Herbert
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your… — Ray Bradbury
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further,… — William Shakespeare
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by… — Graham Greene
The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the… — Patch Adams
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a… — Michael Cunningham
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein. — Charlotte Bronte
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours. — John Piper
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. — Epicurus
There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is â€œnot this day.â€...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is… — Henry B. Eyring
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended… — Julia Glass
Short cuts make long delays. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man. — Elwyn Brooks White
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is… — Herman E. Daly
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you… — Kathleen Norris

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