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• God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Dark, Evil

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.201

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• Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fever, Hesitation

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.

  Wendell Phillips

  World, Sun, Eternal

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• Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Dirty, Government

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

  Andy Grove

  Winning, Technology, Flow

  "Andy Grove coins his own law" by Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. May 18, 2005.

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• Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Want, Gods Plan

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

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Breathing, Play

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error
  is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

  Agnes Martin

  Mistake, Errors, Track

  Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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• If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Challenges, Bigs

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• For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Names, Decision

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

  Rees Howells

  Loss, Circumstances, Discouraging

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• ....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Self, Essence

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.140, Bantam

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• Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Blow, Vengeance

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

  Quintus Ennius

  Men, Enemy, Exhausted

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• Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

  Brian Tracy

  Inability, Economic, Economist

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• Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

  Statius

  Anger, Passion, Giving

  "Thebaid" by Statius, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in "Loeb Classical Library", Vol. 207, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

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

  Statius

  Giving, Ruins, Permit

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• I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

  David Letterman

  Rain, Men, Yankees

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• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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• If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.

  Edward Gibbon

  Order, Punishment, Government

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.908, Delphi Classics

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• Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

  James E. Faust

  Opportunity, Important Choices, Decision

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

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Deny, Capacity, Hinder

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

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• When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Country, Hurt, People

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• If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Real, Government, Views

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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• Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.

  Jasmine V

  Pretending

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