Delay Quotes - Page 8

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

(He glared at them while it rang and rang and rang. Grimacing at the delay, Nick glanced toward Kody.) “Do necromancers not have voice mail?” – Nick

True love hates and will not bear delay.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

In a service situation, each delay can mean many unsatisfied customers, each one telling many more.

In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live sound and delaying it and feeding it back. This is essentially what the EIS system is: a bunch of delays.

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its manifestation is imbued with Chinese peculiarities - is a problem that must be understood and solved by the party without delay.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.

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.

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

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