Quotes of: Postponing Keyword

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua L. Liebman

The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.

Marc Faber

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.

Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast"

The first sight of the Rapstone Valley is of something unexpectedly isolated and uninterruptedly rural; a solitary jogger is the only outward sign of urban pollution.

Paradise Postponed

What on earth was Henry talking about?' 'His soul. I wonder where he keeps it.

Paradise Postponed

POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali

Profound Vers-A-Tales

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Tertullian

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Malcolm X

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

David Spade

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Claire Danes

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

Dimitris Mita

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

Dick Cheney

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

Steve Wozniak

I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed.

The Collected Stories

-Those who never face oppositions always stop at propositions. -Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements

Unlocking Closed Doors

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

The Wanting Seed

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

Brad Sherman

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

Alfred P. Sloan