Delays Quotes

Don't leave today's work for tomorrow.

A human being who strives for something great considers everyone he meets on his way either as a means or as a delay and obstacle - or as a temporary resting place.

You may delay, but time will not.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Tear thyself from delay.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

In delay there lies no plenty.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

Festination may prove Precipitation;Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

A right delayed is a right denied.

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

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

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

Delay is preferable to error.

If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden which belongs not to it. You load the wheels of time, and prevent it from carrying you along smoothly. He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows out the plan, carries on a thread which will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his affairs. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, all things lie huddled together in one chaos, which admits neither of distribution nor review.

A question like the present should be disposed of without undue delay.

But a State cannot be expected to move with the celerity of a private business man; it is enough if it proceeds, in the language of the English Chancery, with all deliberate speed.

Every living sentence which shows a mind at work for itself is to be welcomed.

It is not the first use but the tiresome repetition of inadequate catch words which I am observingphrases which originally were contributions, but which, by their very felicity, delay further analysis for fifty years. That comes from the same source as dislike of noveltyintellectual indolence or weaknessa slackening in the eternal pursuit of the more exact.

There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency.

Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months.

A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

But how is...legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals.

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay.

So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment.

Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

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

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.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s.

I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves.

But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

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

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner.

Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.