Top 100 Quotes About Delay
#1. At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
#2. Tear thyself from delay.
Horace
#3. Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information
Donella Meadows
#4. By increasing Expectancy or Value, or decreasing Impulsiveness or Delay, you hack motivation. For
Nick Winter
#5. The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
George Bernard Shaw
#6. Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
Aesop
#7. Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.
Jenny McCarthy
#9. I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible.
David Millar
#10. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.
Dave Ramsey
#11. Children born deaf of deaf parents have no language delay at all: being exposed to Sign from birth enables a baby to develop as full a vocabulary as the hearing, not just to describe the world, but to manipulate abstract concepts.
Anonymous
#13. Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.
Richie Norton
#15. In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.
Peter Welch
#16. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone De Beauvoir
#17. her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.
Jonathan Franzen
#18. When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique ...
Brad Paisley
#19. Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.
Paul Harvey
#20. It is not my intention to make anything comprehensible. I am of the opinion that there are sufficient paintings which one understands after a shorter or longer delay, and that therefore some incomprehensible painting would now be welcome. I am at pains to deliver such, as far as possible.
Rene Magritte
#21. The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
Teju Cole
#22. The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
Richard Baxter
#23. There is no avoidance in delay.
Aeschylus
#24. My number one objective continues to be to defund or delay the implementation of Obamacare. But as long as any piece of this law is standing, it needs to apply to all Americans equally, and that includes members of Congress and our staff.
Michael McCaul
#25. The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine.
Barbara Kingsolver
#26. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr Jr.
#27. Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
#28. I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
James Surowiecki
#29. The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#30. You look peaceful," he tells her. "Maybe that's what a man feels when he stands before a firing squad. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall." Morton
Jennie Fields
#31. It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#32. Fear of dying young isn't an altogether bad thing. Sometimes it makes you try what you might otherwise delay.
Jennifer Coburn
#33. This is foolish," said Lion Head. "You only delay your death."
"Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies," Leo said.
Rick Riordan
#34. You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey ... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.
Vernon Howard
#36. I am a secret. That is all I will ever be. Everyone in this kingdom is asking the question of the reason behind your delay in taking a wife and that is dangerous for me. - Sari
Ray Anyasi
#37. If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#38. When the heart finds its one true desire, any separation and delay is unbearable.
Stephanie Dray
#39. It takes great courage to accept the constant changes of the emotions within ourselves, and even more audacity to express them whenever they occur and without filter or delay.
Nityananda Das
#40. Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.
Paul Graham
#41. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Archibald Alexander
#42. Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.
Big Sean
#43. Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel De Cervantes
#44. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Oliver Goldsmith
#45. With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare ... because there are so few such diadems left.
Joe L. Wheeler
#46. Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.
Harvey Pekar
#47. Human life can be liken to that of a flower, its beautiful when it blooms, though yours may delay but when it blooms, it will be the rarest and the most beautiful of all.
Amenorhu Kwaku
#48. Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
P. J. O'Rourke
#49. People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.
Paul A. Offit
#50. Next morning while imbibing his morning tea beneath his pink silken quilt Bernard decided he must marry Ethel with no more delay.
Daisy Ashford
#51. If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.
David Nabarro
#52. Love's in need of love today ... don't delay ... send yours in right away
Stevie Wonder
#53. The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin
#54. Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
Andy Grove
#56. Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward
#57. 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.
Rahm Emanuel
#58. So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
Graham Greene
#59. When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
Juvenal
#60. Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
Brian Tracy
#61. It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow
#62. Man's greatest excuse to delay the inevitable." "Can you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?" "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake." Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me.
Krista Ritchie
#63. Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.
Anonymous
#64. Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
Paul Gauguin
#65. For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.
Lord Dunsany
#66. he had decided after careful consideration to join a monastery and take an eternal vow of silence. Immediately. Without a moment's delay. Or, as soon as they'd had lunch. "Do
Amor Towles
#67. One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
[Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem,
Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]
Quintus Ennius
#68. For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
Barack Obama
#69. Time always wins; our victories are only delays; but delays are sweet, and a delay can last a whole lifetime.
Rebecca Solnit
#70. I'm going to ask you to do something that may feel even more painful: when you get close to becoming engaged, put any public announcement on delay for a few weeks and spend several sessions talking through all these issues again with someone else present.
Gary L. Thomas
#71. Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#72. For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#73. Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus
#74. The Lord recently spoke a powerful word to me, 'No more delay!' This word has many applications, which the Lord led me to release as a series of prophetic decrees during Glory of Zion's recent Head of The Year Conference.
Dutch Sheets
#75. If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#76. Your basic Southern Baptist would willingly delay his personal ascent into heaven for the baser pleasure of hanging around to see you burn in hell.
Rick Gavin
#77. Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication,
there is a delay in receiving the expected gift.
He has guaranteed that he will respond
in what He chooses for you,
and not what you choose for yourself,
and at the time He chooses
not the time you desire.
Ibn Ata Allah
#78. Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
Caecilius Statius
#79. We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
Richard Schiff
#80. Just a reminder,.... No Matter what you do for a living, what circumstances are... If you have IMAN you wont miss or delay your Salat.
Hina
#83. Seven key abilities human beings need to effectively manage life: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many
Gavin De Becker
#84. Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government!
Huey Long
#85. It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.
Michio Kaku
#86. I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
Bill Dixon
#88. Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
Saint Augustine
#89. But I've wept so much,' she said to Delay. 'Now I don't cry any more. When you don't cry it's because you no longer believe in happiness.
Justine Picardie
#92. In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.
Ray Bradbury
#93. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Gus Grissom
#94. We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.
Stafford Cripps
#95. For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
Petrarch
#96. If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
Temple Grandin
#97. One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#98. The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#99. Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.
Marvin J. Ashton
#100. One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
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