Top 144 Delays Quotes & Sayings

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

On a plane, you're in your own little bubble, so I try and enjoy it and don't get worried or frustrated about delays.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.

Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

Short cuts make long delays.

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their employees.

Short-cuts lead to long delays.

Longer and more frequent delays for international passengers at Bush will only cede business to Houston's competitors - and the jobs that go along 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.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.

If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you're not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.

Having too many layers of approval in a dynamic battlefield environment delays our ability to fight and win, especially when troops are engaged in combat.

Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

All delays are dangerous in war.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

We need to work together to support common-sense solutions to establish and maintain regulatory certainty and predictability for the mining industry and reduce excessive, duplicative, and expensive permitting delays.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

When you look at traditions closely, examine what they really are, you realize they're made up of layers and layers of deferrals, delays, indecisions, tomorrows and long lunches.

There are times when I am supposed to get off work by seven but only reach home by midnight because of production delays.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

Leaking tunnels, congested roads, rusting bridges, and aging railways often mean one thing: lost opportunity from delays and cancellations.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress.

Delays can't mar a film.

Desires are nourished by delays.

When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

One of my priorities is getting the trains to run on time, and as a commuter myself I understand all too well the frustration caused by endless delays and cancellations.

Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.

You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

In Bollywood, it is common for shoots to have unexpected delays and go well into the night, but shoot schedules in the South are mostly wrapped up by evening, unless absolutely required.

Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

What don't I miss about tennis? Oh man, the road, the airports, the rain delays, the scheduling, the knots in your stomach, not being able to eat. Things like that.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.