Dilatory Quotes

#1. In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.

Charlie Pierce

#2. Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

William Shakespeare

#4. The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos

#5. Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Hesiod

#6. I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

Ridley Scott

#7. From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

Harold E. Varmus

#8. The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

Gilbert Burnet

#9. A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

George Stillman Hillard

#10. Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

Edward Gibbon

#11. I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

Bryan Ferry

#12. Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. I would have to say I've been on the 'Opry' at least 30-35-40 times a year for ... 51-52 years.

Jim Ed Brown

#14. I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.

Stan Musial

#15. Elephants have a theory of mind - they can think into the head of another elephant and infer their knowledge of the world, including errors and omissions of knowledge. That puts them above all but a handful of species - a few primates, some very smart birds and cetaceans.

Alastair Reynolds

#16. My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up...

Helen Falconer

#17. you just have to take one step, and that when you do, the next one will appear.

Shauna Niequist

#18. Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church - and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.

Yann Martel

#19. Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Samuel Johnson

#20. I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.

Cate Tiernan