A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

Tom Coburn

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.

William Cobbett

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

Henry Thomas Buckle

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

Baron de Montesquieu

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

Sidney Hook

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Tavi Gevinson

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

Ellen DeGeneres

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

Joan Didion

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

Diane Ackerman

For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.

Pico Iyer

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

Euripides

I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I'm not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be.

Pete Hoekstra

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

Hannah Whitall Smith

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

Ellen DeGeneres

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.