Delay Quotes

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Short-cuts lead to long delays.

Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

There is no avoidance in delay.

The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time

In delay there lies no plenty.

Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

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.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

You can delay but you can't deny.

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they're doing, we're always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they're going to do.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.

Delay in justice is injustice.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.