Delay Quotations

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.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

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

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

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

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.

I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.

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

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

The perceived impact of the delay may be the real issue to contend with for (chip) stocks in the near-term.

We are proud to be teaming up with Mr. Glenn and the Glenn Foundation. Like us, Paul is dedicated to finding the molecular answers to the aging process so we can understand the mechanisms of normal aging and develop interventions to delay its onset and decline, thereby extending the healthful years of human life.

We've already seen a delay of nearly half a decade in investing in our infrastructure. To continue to delay it further is not a wise decision for our state's economy.

We are afraid the government's lack of urgency may result in a delay in anti-deflation measures it has said it would come up with by the end of this month.

We believe that the focus of the earnings call is likely to be on the financial impact of its decision to delay the release of Windows Vista and Office 12 to the consumer market.

We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

There are certainly a lot of people in the government-relations world -- public relations -- who are close to Tom DeLay and who are able to look out for him, be eyes and ears, that are just not the people on Capitol Hill.

We strongly support Tom DeLay. He's a good man, a close ally of this administration.

We stressed that delay was not in anybody's interest, either procedurally or substantively,

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

When you want something dumped you would point to the board operator, indicating to hit the button. I would say we use the seven-second delay button often. Everybody does. It's pretty standard in the business.

When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.

There is no question that a fight over executive privilege will delay this proceeding considerably. I think they made the broadest executive privilege claim that could be made, and I think the White House has conceded that, even trying to include the first lady.

Until Majority Leader Tom DeLay has his day in court, it is vitally important he be afforded the same presumption of innocence afforded to every other American,

Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain.

When it came to the second reading, there was no public comment, and we felt there was no need to delay it any longer.

What I actually thought of then, ... was the tape that's replayed about five million times every time there's a rain delay here at the Open, when Jimmy Connors says, 'This is what they came for; this is what we'll give them.'

What's missing in all this is DeLay is getting us to not talk about the facts in the case one more day. They don't want to deal with the charges. They are shopping for a friendly judge.

We're filing the suit to make sure our interests are protected. We have no intention to interfere with or delay the pending transaction between BP Amoco and Arco.

We're aware of the situation with Hassan Adams. I've spoken (with) head coach Lute Olson and we've decided to delay any further comment, or provide any reaction, until Monday.

Throughout his career, Tom Delay has been a controversial, divisive and ethically challenged figure, ... He has brought disrepute on the House of Representatives, and his leadership hasn't been good for the institution.

Ultimately, we believe one standard is far preferable to multiple standards. Consumers will delay their purchase if there's confusion, and that results in a market stagnation for everyone.

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.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

With this, we hope that the authorities would delay the execution because there are key witnesses in this case.

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

We're not happy with the results. We had a major delay of service and had to evacuate a train with hundreds of people on it.

We have asked the teachers union to delay the normal time for contracts in order to allow us to work on the process.

We were trying to delay it as much as we could. The longer we kept the ball at our end, the less they could have the ball. But we turned it over too many times right in front of their hoop and boom, boom, boom.

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.

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

We were in a delay, but then I changed the setup where it was a three-man delay with our three guards and Durham's guy backed off him a little. That's not the way I would have drawn it up, but it was within what we were trying to do at that point.

Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

We absolutely do not want to delay those projects.

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

We did delay some of our flights out this morning in an effort to get as many people on their flights as possible.

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

There is a property right. You just delay one aspect of that right into the future.

There are enough people that cared about ethics and integrity that Mr. DeLay was unable to go forward.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

We have a window of opportunity to prevent a pandemic or at least delay the spread of a pandemic.

The FAA and folks having to make the call to delay flights can almost do it in real time.

The extra week makes all the difference. We were running out of options to get to the Rebel, and the week's delay makes a big difference. His work this morning was perfect, and he's all set to go.

The fact is that Tom Campbell is like you and me. He is not a career politician like Tom DeLay. He is a citizen politician. Tom Campbell calls on Tom DeLay to get beyond the negative, immaterial distractions and get back to the real issues that are important to the people of the district.

There is a little bit of a weather delay but not much. The electrical conduit is continuing to get installed and this will give the electrician time to get a little bit ahead in the project. That is a good thing.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

There are worries about mechanical failures, lost ballots, all kinds of things. But I think the market is prepared for a delay in the results. I don't think it will be as much of a surprise as it was in 2000.

The provost has to act as expeditiously as possible in order to improve the situation. He will provide general guidance, but a dean is needed to pull the solution into focus. It would not be fair to students to delay this decision any longer.

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.