Postpones Quotes

#1. He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

#2. Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

Peter Drucker

#3. Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.

Virginia Postrel

#4. Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.

Jan Denise

#6. Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#7. No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

Henry Ford

#8. Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua L. Liebman

#9. 'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.

Steve Erickson

#10. I have always been a little disconcerted by the passion women have for behaving beautifully at the deathbed of those they love. Sometimes it seems as if they grudge the longevity which postpones their chance of an effective scene.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I have forgiven the world for the love of you;

Alexandre Dumas

#13. Knowledge is an intellectual art.
Wisdom is a spiritual discipline.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

Margery Allingham

#15. He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#16. King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley