Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares."
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Delay
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time."
Ban Ki-moon
Diplomat
"The longer we delay, the more we will pay."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate."
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"By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals."
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"Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes."
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"The best remedy for anger is delay."
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"God may delay, but He always comes."
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"You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."
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"Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours."
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"Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)"
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"Delay always breeds danger."
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"The best cure for anger is delay."
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"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
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"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
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"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."
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"Short cuts make long delays."
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"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable."
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"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds."
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"Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow."
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"Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay."
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"There is no avoidance in delay."
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"In delay there lies no plenty."
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"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."
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