Postponement Quotes

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

We thought we would get around to it sometime down the line. Theoretically we could have regulated it, but it wasn't on our radar screen.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

If we learned anything from the depression we will not allow ourselves to run around in new circles of futile discussion and debate, always postponing the day of decision.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

Sometimes it is better to delay.

The safest refuge when dealing with urgent, ticklish problems is sought in shirking responsibility, in gaining time by the formation of Committees, with the requisite Sub-Committees to tackle the problem. It is the well-known practice of Promise, Pause, Prepare, Postpone and end by letting things alone

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.

Later is always my first choice.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.