Delay Quotes

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

Delay always heeds danger.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

Tear thyself from delay.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

To delay is injustice.

If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

All delays are dangerous in war.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

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 delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Never procrastinate in showing love. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Do it now.

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Delay is preferable to error.

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.