Quotes about Delay

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Time doesn't wait for anyone, but you always have to wait for time.

The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a "cooling-off period") (...).

In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.