Lags Quotes

#1. Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

Samuel Johnson

#2. I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

Zygmunt Bauman

#3. Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

Richard P. Feynman

#4. How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

William Cowper

#5. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Maria Montessori

#6. As the United States lagged behind the civilized world in outlawing human slavery, so the United States now lags behind in softening the unrestrained brutalities of animal slavery.

Peter Singer

#7. The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

Franz Kafka

#8. The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

Bob Simon

#9. San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Gavin Newsom

#10. The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Barbra Streisand

#11. Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.

Baltasar Gracian

#12. Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

Lael Brainard

#13. Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Edmund Burke

#14. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Amory Lovins

#15. The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Bill Maris

#16. Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

Robert E. Ornstein

#17. Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.

Walter De La Mare

#18. The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
it comes or it lags behind,
It comes from its embowered garden
and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

Walt Whitman

#19. And I love to watch how the day, tired as it is, lags away reluctantly, and hates to be called yesterday so soon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#20. When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

Thomas J. Sargent

#21. A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.

Jeremy Corbyn

#22. Lag ... occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years; ... 39% (lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for application.

Julius H. Comroe Jr.

#23. Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

Richard Posner

#24. Upon my lips the breath of song,
Within my heart a rhyme,
Howe'er time trips or lags along,
I keep abreast with time!

Clinton Scollard

#25. I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

Marian McPartland

#26. We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.

Bryan Cupito

#27. Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it, and to uphold a general principle that under no circumstances do you provide accurate information to a cop.

David Simon

#28. I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout

Harper Lee

#29. Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

Peter Gabriel

#30. Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.

Peter Jackson

#31. Wooden stakes could render a vampire weak and useless, until the heart began to heal. Sunlight charred their flesh to a flaky, black tissue, but rarely did it kill them completely. But dead blood... one lethal dose of that stuff and it was good riddance. Sayonara, bloodsucker.

Lindsey Beth Goddard

#32. In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

Andre Ward

#33. English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Vaclav Havel

#34. Meaningful work is within your grasp.

Dan Miller

#35. All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.

Mindy Kaling