Quotes about Delay

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

If I'd been older I would've asked what it was right away, but I didn't because I wanted to postpone the moment when I would know what it was. In stories I'd read, I'd come across the words nameless dread. They'd just been words then, but now that's exactly what I felt.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Late is the first step to never.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

By and by never comes.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.