A Quote by Publilius Syrus

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

Publilius Syrus

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Anxious Delay Even Like Seems Speed

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Homer

If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

David Nabarro

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

Patrick Leahy

The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt.

Rhonda Byrne

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

Damian Lewis

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

Evelle J. Younger

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

Marcus Luttrell

The universe likes speed. Don't delay. Don't second guess. Don't doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there, act. That's your job. That's all you have to do.

Joe Vitale

We've found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there's a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there's even more of a delay. No single compound will do this.

Tyrone Hayes

We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

Carl Honore

I'm not like, overly anxious or nothing like that, because sometimes when you're overly anxious it kind of brings a weird energy around and I just like to just take things one day at a time.

Tory Lanez

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

Jeremy Clarkson

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

Ty Cobb

In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability.