Lag quotes
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult."
"Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time."
"I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours."
"Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace."
"For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
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"I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery."
"The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow."
"A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact."
