Delay Quotes

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

Don't delay. It's getting late.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

Hillary Clinton tweeted "Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay. The Clinton campaign has since announced that Clinton will travel to Charlotte.

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.

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.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

No longer will we tolerate one job killing delay after another. No longer will we accept a broken system that benefits consultants and lobbyists at the expense of hardworking Americans.

Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

A delay does not solve the revenue problem.

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

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.