Quotes About Tardiness

#1. A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

Marquis De Lafayette

#3. Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

William Whipple

#5. Celerity is tardiness when ardent desire urges.

Publilius Syrus

#6. Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig

#7. I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

Tim Hudson

#8. The anger of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment.

John Calvin

#9. Is it but this, - a tardiness in nature
Which often leaves the history unspoke
That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,
What say you to the lady? Love's not love
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?
She is herself a dowry.

William Shakespeare

#10. Hate not a man for his tardiness for the only thing that is on time is; time it self.

Xela Ffonrims

#11. A tardiness in nature,
Which often leaves the history unspoke,
That it intends to do.

William Shakespeare

#12. Granny said tardiness was nothing but bad manners, and that people with bad manners lacked character. Erlene

Scott Pratt

#13. But Dovey was one of those people who traveled in a medium-size pod of tardiness on which others came to rely.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Sitting at the single table in a disreputable pile of lumber mistakenly called a building.

Andrea K. Host

#15. Acts of standing every trial without reversal is a sign of positiveness.

Sol Michael

#16. I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

Sheldon Harnick

#17. Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Sigourney Weaver

#18. It was the day after Thanksgiving. I was the 3 p.m. backwaiter, but the trains were running irregularly, and while I had heard one sighing into the station as I ran down the stairs, my card was out of money. Which is to say, I was late.

Stephanie Danler

#19. From the Book of Republicans: "Lo, we have many assholes running for President. Let us consider, and pick the biggest. And so it was done.

Stephen King

#20. Never leave to be on time to be on time.

Brian Spellman

#21. 23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.

Anne Wojcicki

#22. You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her

Sarah J. Maas

#23. it occured to her that kissing and being kissed were two different things. and being kissed by someone you've really wanted to is something else again.

Emily Franklin

#24. Most leave to be on time, thus always late.

Brian Spellman

#25. The want of punctuality is a want of honest principle; for however people may think themselves authorised to rob God and themselves of their own time, they can plead no right to lay a violent hand on the time and duties of their neighbor.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

#26. The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

Kailash Satyarthi

#27. We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

Abbi Jacobson

#28. I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Megan Fox

#29. Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

Robert Greene

#30. I wouldn't expect you to know what the word honor means anyway. But when I make a pledge, I uphold it.

Amanda Carlson

#31. Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

Elizabeth Chase Allen

#32. Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Robert Fripp