Postponed Quotes

49 quotes by 48 authors

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right. — Dick Cheney
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. — Winston Churchill
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. — P.G. Wodehouse
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed. — Murray Rothbard
We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do… — Ervin Laszlo
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have… — Grenville Kleiser
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas
Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of… — Erik Larson
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. — Norman O. Brown
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed — Kin Hubbard
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to… — Marcus Aurelius
If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it… — Eric Liu
A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill… — Chellie Pingree
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge… — C.S. Lewis
Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs. — Joan Rivers
Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with… — Andre Maurois
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed. — Karl Kraus

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