Delayed Quotes - Page 2

• Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

  Phil Keoghan

  Notebook, Book, Humour

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below dangerous rises in temperature. I am pleased that this important new study shows how information and communication technology can play an essential role in saving energy. Now we need more and effective government policies that reward such action and penalize delayed responses.

  Christiana Figueres

  Communication, Technology, Government

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• If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Strong, War, Discovery

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

  Randy Quaid

  Want, Adolescence, Tied

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• Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Justice, Done

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• If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

  Bill Bonner

  Long, Mark, Delayed Gratification

  Bill Bonner (2012). “Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

  John Ortberg

  Perseverance, Powerful, Disappointment

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• Love delayed is lust augmented.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Lust

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• Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Dark, Long, Hustle

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• I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

  J. D. Salinger

  New York, Prayer, Loneliness

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• Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.

  Matthew Kelly

  Love, Pain, Age

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.115, BookBaby

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• We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Long

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.90, Beacon Press

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• He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

  Graham Greene

  Taken, Hands, Ideas

  'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 1

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• Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans subjected to bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold waiting for a government service rep to take a call, restrictions on care, and, yes, lifesaving treatment and lifesaving surgeries denied or delayed.

  Mitch McConnell

  Running, Government, Waiting

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• Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Two, Reactions

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• Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to the hole in the door. "No. No, I'm okay. What a about you? Are you hurt?" "Only if you count the fact that you damned near ripped off my plumbing groping around for my phone." She made a sound of exasperation. "Now? You pick now to become a comedian?" "It's all about timing," he whispered back.

  Cindy Gerard

  Hurt, Phones, Doors

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• Ah, Lady Maccon, how lovely. I did wonder when you would track us down.” “I was unavoidably delayed by husbands and Ivys,” explained Alexia. “These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Track, Lovely

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• The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Long, Giving

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• Art is a delayed echo.

  George Santayana

  Art, Echoes, Art Is

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• [S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Long, Way, Easy

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.24, HarperCollins

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• We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Long, Catholic

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• Matthew: Shall I remind you of some of the choicest remarks you made about me when I arrived here? Because they live in my memory as fresh as the day they were spoken. Mary: Oh, Matthew. What am I always telling you? You must pay no attention to the things I say. When they kiss, it is a long kiss, all the more passionate for being delayed far longer than it should have been.

  Jessica Fellowes

  Memories, Kissing, Should Have

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• If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moving, Christian Inspirational, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.” “Oh?” “Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.

  Gail Carriger

  Heartbroken, Deployment, Difficult

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• If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

  Herman Cain

  Government, Obamacare, Trying

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