Top 77 Quotes About Postponed
#2. This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity.
Eyden I.
#3. But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join ... he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning. Pg 55
Mark Helprin
#4. Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
Peter Drucker
#5. I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.
Arthur Ransome
#6. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.
Grenville Kleiser
#7. I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.
Mark Grotjahn
#8. The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.
Jay Leno
#9. In that latitude the midsummer days were long, midsummer nights only a short darkness between the long twilight that postponed the stars and the green dawn clarity that sponged them up.
Wallace Stegner
#10. Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed ... We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
Gordon Brown
#11. Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
P.G. Wodehouse
#12. All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.
Robert Grudin
#14. I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue dreams and goals. Just don't forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. A lot of happiness is bypassed, overlooked, postponed to a time years from now that may never come. Don't bide your time and miss out on this moment for a tomorrow with no guarantee.
Kim Holden
#15. Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.
Jasper Fforde
#16. 90% of out tasks are postponed because we wait till the day gets over to finish them.
Dhaval Gajera
#17. I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
Claire Danes
#19. From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.
Niall Ferguson
#20. Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.
J.D. Salinger
#21. Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.
Eric Liu
#22. You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.
Ryan Holiday
#23. Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves
John Flanagan
#24. Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
Graham Greene
#25. Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
Randy Alcorn
#26. Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
Brad Sherman
#27. Without madness what is man
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets?
Fernando Pessoa
#28. Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
Andre Maurois
#29. I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#31. Tsukuru decided not to pursue it further. He could think about it all he wanted and never find an answer. He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled "Pending" and postponed any further consideration. He had many such drawers inside him, with numerous doubts and questions tucked away.
Haruki Murakami
#32. Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams
what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred
I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.
Anne Lamott
#33. An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard
#34. Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.
Murray Rothbard
#37. Don't cluster tasks on your way. Some tasks would definitely have to be postponed to the next day. You can't do all things in one day. You can't chase two rabbits at the same time. Both will escape.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
Sanford I. Weill
#40. Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. Jeeves."
"Sir?"
"Are you busy just now?"
"No, sir."
"I mean, not doing anything in particular?"
"No, sir. It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; but, if you desire my services, this can easily be postponed, or, indeed, abandoned altogether.
P.G. Wodehouse
#42. Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.
Joan Rivers
#43. I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century ... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#45. Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.
Mark Lynas
#46. There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#47. The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
#48. Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.
Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!
Dimity Powell
#49. Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
Herge
#52. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.
Philip Bobbitt
#53. I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed.
Amy Hempel
#54. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
#55. Charisma without character is postponed calamity.
Peter Ajisafe
#57.
,all our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.
Jorge Luis Borges
#58. Once you've postponed doing what's right, you become a big part of what's wrong.
Elizabeth Kelly
#59. And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
Margaret Mitchell
#60. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!
Anne Frank
#61. Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
#63. Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
Alain De Botton
#64. If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#65. Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#66. Let others take up my madness
And all that went with it.
Without madness what is man
But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds?
Fernando Pessoa
#67. What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
Marc Faber
#68. I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.
Dick Cheney
#69. His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.
Jean Ferris
#70. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take over. The reason to do research and writing is that it at least makes me feel not entirely replaceable. If I didn't write, I don't know if I would do surgery.
Atul Gawande
#71. You didn't save my life, you postponed my death. There's a difference.
Kalayna Price
#73. Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
Karl Kraus
#74. Yet within Mr Norrell's dry little heart there was as lively an ambition to bring back magic to England as would satisfied even Mr Honeyfoot, and it was with the intention of bring that ambition to a long-postponed fulfilment that Mr Norrell now proposed to go to London.
Susanna Clarke
#75. I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#76. The Romans recognized potential difficulties in advance and always remedied them in time. They never let problems develop just so they could escape a war, for they knew that such wars cannot be avoided, only postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#77. He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled "Pending" and postponed any further consideration.
Haruki Murakami
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