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YOU MAY DELAY BUT TIME WILL NOT. — Self

If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sorry for the delay," Vogel said. "I was required to make a bomb. — Andy Weir

Now-people" are winners; they say "now" and they do it "now"! Do not delay. — Israelmore Ayivor

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay? — Timothy Keller

Delay is preferable to error. — Thomas Jefferson

Kofi Annan's kangaroo court ... a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world. — Tom DeLay

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress. — Stuart Bowen

By increasing Expectancy or Value, or decreasing Impulsiveness or Delay, you hack motivation. For — Nick Winter

Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface; it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series! — Israelmore Ayivor

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay. — James Buchan

Temper your future actions. — Tom DeLay

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. — John Steinbeck

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. — Paul Theroux

When the judge learned i was sick and unable to come to kourt, he had a fit. He acted like i had gotten sick just to delay the trial. — Assata Shakur

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. — Joey Santiago

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. — Aaron Burr Jr.

Surprise was always good. Delay was always fatal. Guys who let a situation unfold in its own good time were just stockpiling problems for themselves. — Lee Child

The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems. — Stephen Richards

Sweep to my side, please don't delay. Share your warmth as you swirl and sway. — Shannon Messenger

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

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down. — Caryll Houselander

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. — C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Being a kid is all about learning to bide time, proving just how unnatural it is to delay gratification. — Kelly Corrigan

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom. — Publilius Syrus

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. — Epicurus

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

Delay is the enemy of progress. — Eliot Spitzer

It wasn't enough. With that much damage, there was no way her blood would be effective quick enough. It would only delay the inevitable. — Lindsay J. Pryor

We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay. — Donald G. Reinertsen

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

Your basic Southern Baptist would willingly delay his personal ascent into heaven for the baser pleasure of hanging around to see you burn in hell. — Rick Gavin

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure. — Dave Ramsey

Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building. — Anonymous

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life. — Patch Adams

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin — Damon Zahariades

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy. — Tom DeLay

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds. — F. Sionil Jose

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. — Thomas Paine

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

If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time. Therefore, the greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey — Jeff Wheeler

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

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

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

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me. — Tom DeLay

Desires are nourished by delays. — Thomas Draxe

Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat — Tom DeLay

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

Delay only increases the sorrow of parting. — Alexandre Dumas

It is virtuous to delay your gratification. — Sunday Adelaja

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning? — Randall Wright

Time always wins; our victories are only delays; but delays are sweet, and a delay can last a whole lifetime. — Rebecca Solnit

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

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. — James Surowiecki

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. — Temple Grandin

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay. — Aesop

Short-cuts lead to long delays. — Mike Rowe

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. — William Shakespeare

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit. — Samuel Johnson

The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt.. — Rhonda Byrne

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. — P. J. O'Rourke

the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'. — Karl Pilkington

Children become what they are told they are. — Dorothy DeLay

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

Why, therefore, do we delay to abandon our hopes of this world, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life? But — Augustine Of Hippo

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

Tear thyself from delay. — Horace

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

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better. — Tryon Edwards

Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid. — Tom DeLay

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes. — Martin Luther

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

Does life have any meaningful purpose? — Tom DeLay

your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession - your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced, — Ruta Sepetys

Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming. — Wendell Phillips

Kindness is weakness. Your weakness will delay the trigger by a moment. This world doesn't treat kindness kindly. - Koko Hekmatyar — Takahashi Keitarou

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

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. — Eliot Spitzer

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption. — Jim Hightower

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. — William Arthur Ward

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer. — Frank Herbert

Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn't it?
"I've made some bad decisions," Caine said, not really meaning to say it out loud. — Michael Grant

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'. — Ken Keyes Jr.

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

those who strive to delay or hinder the restoration of the church will accomplish nothing. God is its vindicator, and he will judge all peoples. — John Calvin

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering. — Sunday Adelaja

When you've found out that the person you love loves you, you can't
delay. You have to hurry. — Alex Flinn

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. — Nancy Northup

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Surely revival delays because prayer decays. — Leonard Ravenhill

Delay in justice is injustice. — Walter Savage Landor

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country. — Joachim De Posada

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with — Peter Jackson

God's delay's are not His denials — John Hagee

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

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree? — Richard Baxter

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor