One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Better hope deferred than none.
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.
What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
I don't want to take away deferred status from anyone who has it, but I also didn't want to send the message that it is OK to come here illegally.
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.
Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
Pain now is better than pain deferred.
Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.
I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because they were never naive enough or brazen enough to say, 'Let me do this.'
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope
than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when
it is long deferred.
As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
What is deferred is not avoided.
What happens to a dream deferred?
I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Juneteenth has always been a symbol of freedom deferred.
A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.
Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
Justice deferred is justice denied.
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.
Hope is a dream deferred.
To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist.
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.
It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.
I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.
A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.
I do not consider myself to be a scientist, and I've always deferred to career scientists on issues of science.
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.
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