Top 100 Quotes About Delayed
#1. A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#2. Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.
Laura Riding
#4. This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.
Kerry King
#5. Always keep this point in mind: the word "delay" means what it says: late. Delayed isn't never, no matter how much it may feel like that at age fifteen or even twenty-five.
John Elder Robison
#6. The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
Edward Coke
#7. I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
Randy Quaid
#8. I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.
Neal Shusterman
#9. If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
Bill Bonner
#10. Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.
Michael Greger
#11. We'd been so good together once, and then we'd rotted, like some corpse with a delayed burial.
Robyn Schneider
#12. He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.
Graham Greene
#13. Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
Eskinder Nega
#14. He also had his proof that bureaucracy made small problems into big problems. India convinced Dad that Britain, which he called socialist England, had delayed the Allied victory in World War II by an entire year.
Claire Conner
#15. Besides ... anticipation is the key to seduction, and right now, I'm really into delayed gratification.
E.L. James
#16. Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time.
Prophetess Dina Rolle
#17. Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
George Bernard Shaw
#18. The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
Rene Dubos
#19. The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications.
Steven Magee
#20. Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime - the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.
John Irving
#22. In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
Akhmad Kadyrov
#24. If this generation doesn't end ...
then change towards a better one will be delayed.
Toba Beta
#25. Delayed gratification."
"Yeah, it makes things sweeter."
"Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour.
Dean Koontz
#27. Delayed gratification helps you to do more, persistent and get better reward and greater profit.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
Maximillian Degenerez
#29. Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.
John Colville
#30. Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
#31. The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
Samuel Johnson
#33. Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander
#34. When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.
Carol Guzy
#35. But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.
Margaret Lazarus Dean
#36. Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. I am Merc and there are three things you should know about me. Number one. You might be bigger, but I will last longer. Number two. If you fuck me, I fuck everything you ever loved. And number three. I never lose. My victory is only delayed.
J.A. Huss
#38. A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
Vash Young
#39. Delayed justice was as bad as injustice.
Brent Weeks
#40. Some discoveries would probably have been delayed, or perhaps not made at all; but many false leads would also not have been pursued, and it is possible that medicine would have developed in a very different and more efficacious direction, emphasizing healthy living rather than cure. In
Peter Singer
#41. But to be liked, you must never disagree. And if you never disagree, it's like only breathing in and never breathing outl A man can suffocate on courtesy. What if God wanted to be liked instead of loved? What if the almighty delayed every decision until He was sure it would please the majority?
J. Lawrence
#42. The beautiful thing about faking a news show is the topicality is delayed.
Jon Stewart
#43. After delayed gratification comes greater reward, better profit and greater glory.
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Why did it take so long for a Darwin to arrive on the scene? What delayed humanity's tumbling to that luminously simple idea which seems, on the face of it, so much easier to grasp than the mathematical ideas given us by Newton two centuries earlier - or, indeed, by Archimedes two millennia earlier?
Richard Dawkins
#46. There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.
Donna Farhi
#47. The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
Shawn Ryan
#48. As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.
Nadifa Mohamed
#49. It's through delayed gratification that patience comes.
Sunday Adelaja
#50. Hormones, it seemed, we're making a much-delayed appearance in her life.
Liv was horrified.
Danika Stone
#51. Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile ...
Theodore White
#52. [F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.
Clay Shirky
#53. I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.
Brian Setzer
#54. Slaughter personified to him every evil of this war. It would never end for Tom until he had dealt with Slaughter. His chance had been delayed last night. The next time he encountered the Colonel, he'd kill him.
C.G. Faulkner
#55. I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
Patrick Stump
#56. Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. When the FDA announced its intentions to join other countries and ban quinolone use on U.S. chicken farms, the drug manufacturer Bayer initiated legal action that successfully delayed the process for five years.
Michael Greger
#58. If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.
Sun Tzu
#59. Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.
Sunday Adelaja
#60. [S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.
Gretchen Rubin
#61. When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
Adam Mansbach
#62. The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Tobe Hooper
#63. When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
James Dyson
#64. Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.
Steven Pressfield
#65. Amen,' I say, delayed, and now, like many of these people, I pray for the first time in years.
Markus Zusak
#67. A loss is often a win delayed. A win at times is a loss defrayed. Equanimity with either is the real crusade.
Rashid Osmani
#68. If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#69. You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.
Warren Buffett
#70. If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
Aaron Sorkin
#72. You just threatened them with a gun. I think I just threatened them with a gun. We got the money back. They actually returned it.' She took another shaky step. 'I feel so ... vibrant.'
His eyes were cynical. 'Delayed emotion. Don't do anything stupid because of it.
Anne Mallory
#73. The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
John Keegan
#74. We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
Heather Brooke
#75. This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.
Patty Murray
#76. Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
Bill McKibben
#77. I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
J.K. Rowling
#78. Delayed gratification the ability to control yourself or restrain yourself from getting an instant benefit.
Sunday Adelaja
#79. Poor Jan alone. When she noticed I was seriously date-delayed, Christine started trying
Claire Cook
#80. Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.
Charles Spurgeon
#81. Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society.
Sunday Adelaja
#82. If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.
Ibn Ata Allah
#83. Barbara stumbled, and, for a brief second, took my arm. It was then, perhaps, that a force was released, no less powerful for its action proving somewhat delayed; for emotions of that kind are not always immediately grasped.
Anthony Powell
#84. Had Howe pressed on the afternoon of the 27th, the British victory could have been total. Or had the wind turned earlier, and the British navy moved into the East River, the war and the chances of an independent United States of America could have been long delayed, or even ended there and then.
David McCullough
#85. The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc.
Michio Kaku
#86. A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
Joseph Lancaster
#87. The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).
Ilana Mercer
#88. We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.
Saint John Chrysostom
#89. The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by ... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
Albert Sabin
#90. Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.
Julie Bishop
#93. Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.
Greg Gutfeld
#94. I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when
John Green
#95. When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
Tom Conti
#98. Whatever happened to delayed gratification?" "I got over it, and I'm now a firm advocate of instant gratification. Carpe diem, Ana," he whispers.
E.L. James
#99. Without delayed gratification, goals are not achieved and objectives don't get accomplished.
Sunday Adelaja
#100. Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
Ernest Hemingway,
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