Delayed Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

  Lauryn Hill

  Creativity, Emotional, Ideas

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• Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

  Bobby V

  Falling In Love, Eye, Sunlight

  Song: Anonymous, Album: Special Occasion, 2007

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• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Procrastination, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memorable, Character, Long

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

  Murray Rothbard

  Recovery, Liberty, Lasts

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1001, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Government, People

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• This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.

  Patty Murray

  Inspirational, Long, Empowering

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• Justice delayed is democracy denied.

  John F. Kennedy

  Justice, Democracy, Denied

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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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• Art is a delayed echo.

  George Santayana

  Art, Echoes, Art Is

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• Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

  Theodore White

  Long, Political, Too Late

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• Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is still realizable even when early contact is delayed--as it is for many mothers and their prematurely born infants, or when illness of either the newborn or the mother intervenes.

  Julius Segal

  Mother, Attachment, Events

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• The beautiful thing about faking a news show is the topicality is delayed.

  Jon Stewart

  Beautiful, News, Shows

  "Jon Stewart, Faking It and Making It". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 22, 2005.

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• There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Mean, Class

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.6, Macmillan

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• The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Intelligent, Play, Sound

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria ; they delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Team, Red, Als

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

  Laura Riding

  Children, Years, Knowing Everything

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• Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in the field--I will not say that the cause of American liberty and American independence must have been ultimately defeated--no, no, there was no ultimate defeat for that cause in the decrees of the Most High; but it must have been delayed, postponed, perplexed, and to many eyes and hearts rendered seemingly hopeless.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Heart, Eye, Virginia

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1876). “Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Delivered in the Music Hall, at the Request of the City Government, Boston, 4 July, 1876”, p.22

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• The FCC has delayed the decision on the Time/Warner Comcast merger. So how do you think those folks like being put on hold?

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Fcc, Decision

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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