Temporizing Quotes
- In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously… — Carl Sagan
- [M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the… — George Washington
- Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures… — Percy Bysshe Shelley