- Disheartening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delay Quotes
When waiting helps, and when it costs everything.
This delay quotes collection weighs the risks and occasional benefits of waiting, from the danger delay poses to justice to the wisdom of pausing before acting in error. See our Postpone quotes for related ideas.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delay in justice is injustice.
- Preferable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delay is preferable to error.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
- Attack
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relying on intelligence as the chief touchstone for decisions about whether and when to attack creates a wide opening for misunderstandings, divergent interpretations, and vulnerabilities to parties with an interest in either attack or delay.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Tom DeLay's district.
- Nov 07, 2020
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020