Quotes and Sayings about Delay
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Success)
"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."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Time, Delay, Grave, Now, Will)
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
- Samuel Alexander
(Related: Enjoyment, Fancy, Future)
"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal."
- Mario Andretti
(Related: Goal, Cause, Circumstances, May, Sight)
"The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Love, First, Sight)
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Change, Life, Act, Delay, Future, Now, Today)
"I grew up in Tom DeLay's district."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Delay)
"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."
- Chris Bell
(Related: People, American, Delay, Democracy, Police, Protection, Public, Self)
"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."
- Chris Bell
(Related: Complaint, Corruption, Delay, Ethics, Republican)
"We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Ageing, Fact)
"One day's delay is another day's lack of progress."
- Stuart Bowen
(Related: Progress, Day, Delay)
"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."
- George Canning
(Related: Failure, Indecision, Parents)
"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Death, Men, Life, Accident, Day, Evil, Judgment, Justice)
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Design, Danger, Delay, Ruin)
"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."
- Lacey Chabert
(Related: Acting, Choices, College, Delay, Now, Projects, Right, Trying, Years)
"My initial interest, just prior to my work on cytokines, was on cell-mediated immunity and delayed hypersensitivity, mostly with respect to the cells that populated these reactions."
- Stanley Cohen
(Related: Work, Interest, Respect)
"Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year."
- Simon Cowell
(Related: Boss, Borrowing, Company, Future, Generations, Now, Pain, Right, Trouble, Will)
"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."
- Stafford Cripps
(Related: Change, Time, War, Being, Cause, Delay, Facts, Freedom, Want)
"I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why."
- Dizzy Dean
(Related: Delay)
"Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Delay, Houston)
"In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: People, Congress, Earth, Fight, Israel, states, United)
"A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Family, Care, Man, Stability, Woman)
"I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Government, Constitution, Job, states, United)
"I am the Federal Government."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Government)
"I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Government, Church, Constitution, Separation, State, Will)
"My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: War, Conflict, Friends, Terrorism)
"Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Nothing, Woman)
"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Control, Birth control, Causes, Evolution, Kids, Mothers, Parents, Schools, Teaching, Violence, Youth)
"You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Balance, Democrats, Taxes, Want)
"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: War, Nothing, Taxes)
"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."
- Bill Dixon
(Related: Delay, Play)
"The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect."
- Rene Dubos
(Related: Pollution)
"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."
- Rahm Emanuel
(Related: Delay, Elections, Friends, Law, Rules)
"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."
- John Engler
(Related: Growth, America, Completion, Day, Delay, Investment, Jobs, Needs, Reason)
"I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree."
- Daniel J. Evans
(Related: People, Service)
"Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: May, Months, Will)
"What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Delay, Ethics, Republicans)
"You may delay, but time will not."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Delay, May, Will)
"Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Delay)
"If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure."
- Adolf Galland
(Related: American, Day)
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Justice)
"Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children."
- John Goodman
(Related: Children, Delay, Future, Reform, Security)
"I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult."
- Daniela Hantuchova
(Related: Day, Delay, First, Play, Rain, Waiting)
"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."
- Joseph Heller
(Related: Delay, Order, Worry)
"This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Health, Corruption, Delay, Public)
"The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce."
- Tobe Hooper
(Related: Living, London, Production)
"Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry."
- Duncan Hunter
(Related: Work, Delay, Nation)
"'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."
- Antony Jay
(Related: Authority, Committee, Decisions, Responsibility)
"Delay is preferable to error."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Delay, Error)
"In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer."
- Akhmad Kadyrov
(Related: Time, War, Life, Now, President)
"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
- John Keegan
(Related: Battle, Fight, Man, Violence)
"None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them."
- Jack Kevorkian
(Related: Delay, Want)
"A right delayed is a right denied."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Right)
"A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Christian, Evil, Public, United)
"Delay in justice is injustice."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Delay, Injustice)
"The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: American, Patience, Public, Will)
"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."
- Vladimir Lenin
(Related: Death, Government, Action, Delay)
"The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do."
- Robert Luskin
(Related: Nothing, Reason, Resolution)
"The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation."
- Milarepa
(Related: Delay, Meditation, Practice, Will, World)
"We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Projects, Risk)
"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."
- Ovid
(Related: Time, Delay, Folly)
"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."
- Ovid
(Related: Death, Delay, Punishment)
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Anger, Delay)
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
- C. Northcote Parkinson
(Related: Delay, Denial)
"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: Experience, Work, Chastity, Hard work, Patience, Pretty, Reading)
"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."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Life, Men, Death, Delay, Mankind, Property, World, Youth)
"If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas."
- John Podesta
(Related: People, Delay, Republicans, Result)
"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."
- Mitchell Reiss
(Related: Concern, Delay)
"The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: Home, Americans, Native Americans, Ownership)
"Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone."
- Terry Riley
(Related: Evening, Play)
"Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays."
- Terry Riley
(Related: First, Night, Talking)
"If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Delay, Mistakes, President)
"The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided."
- Shawn Ryan
"God's delays are not God's denials."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: God)
"It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay."
- Jay Alan Sekulow
(Related: Court, Delay, Justice, Now, Senate)
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Anger, Delay)
"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
- Brian Setzer
(Related: Sound)
"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."
- Richard Shelby
(Related: Power, Delay, Destruction, Harm, Nation, Pursuit, Weapons, Will)
"Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant."
- Caecilius Statius
(Related: Delay)
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
- Tacitus
(Related: Truth, Delay, Falsehood, Haste, Uncertainty)
"No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States."
- Henry Villard
(Related: Delay, Help, Inexplicable, President, states)
"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Failure, Being, Defeat, Delay, End, Nothing, Saying)
"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."
- John Warner
(Related: Power, Day, Defeat, Delay, Support, Troops)