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.

One of the big problems we have is every time we have a crisis, we have to go knocking on doors. It could take anywhere from two to four months from the time we get the money to the actual handing over of the food because you have to buy it, transport it, and distribute it. There's a delay in that.

If we get a little lucky, Tom DeLay will look at the next election from behind bars, ... Then in 2006, we're going to take back the House.

I was pleased with how we executed and came out ready to play after the rain delay. Kim gave us great effort on the mound and we backed her up with the hits and runs we needed.

Nobody here thinks we are going to out raise Tom DeLay. But we are going to have to raise more to win this House race than anybody probably has raised before.

My guess is that all hands will be on deck, ... Those who are formally in leadership, and members who are influential and not in leadership by title, will all be fully engaged. That means Tom DeLay will be fully engaged.

Some consumers will certainly delay PC purchases until Vista is available, but we expect the delay to shift only moderate volume from the fourth quarter of 2006 into 2007 and will not cause a loss of sales.

No doubt, I'm sure, the senior executives at Microsoft were pretty upset (with the latest Vista delay). Steven has a track record of shipping products (and he can) potentially take the reins and get the thing out the door and fix whatever process problems there are.

One wonders where there's smoke, there's fire. There's no telling what did Delay know and when did he know it?

One word for Microsoft: delay. Stretch the remedy out, stretch the appeal out, stretch the Supreme Court proceeding out. If you delay as long as possible then anything could happen.

More tightening is still needed. The Fed has to consider the election calendar. They can't delay until late summer or fall, when it might be politically more difficult.

No one knows when this is going to end. DeLay is confident that when it ends, the prosecutors will conclude that he's done nothing wrong.

None of this means necessarily that DeLay is going to be indicted. But a deal like this only strengthens the government's hand.

Of course it took too long, but I'm glad they didn't rush it to market. I think it was a wise decision to hold off on the newer version and delay it until the product was ready, which I think it is.

Obviously, we are disappointed that there might be any further delay. However, we remain committed to working with the state of Florida and Palm Beach County to make Scripps Florida an even greater success that it already is,

Right after he came home from his rehab, we started to have a few problems, and I thought it was going to be in our best interest to delay the wedding. But he really pushed it, and I thought it was really going to be something that worked this time.

If the running conditions on the roadways were hazardous to our runners, that would be sufficient to cancel or delay the event. I'm mostly concerned that our volunteers will opt to stay home because of the frigid conditions. The runners, for the most part, won't be deterred.

I'd like to see the first time that Bush and Tom DeLay get into a trap.

I'd like to apologize for the delay. I have been cautious because many people in various areas are banking on the potential of the next-generation DVD.

I'd like to believe we hurt ourselves more than they hurt us. It was dysfunctional management. We had to use timeouts, we had a delay of game penalty, two personal fouls ... We lost our emotion out there, and it hurt us.

If we delay, the adjustments could be abrupt and painful,

If this is the priority then I need to know so that I can plan for that and maybe next time not delay power to hospitals and water systems by 24 hours.

If they will continue working full time or will be phasing out of work, and wages put them in a higher tax bracket during the phase-out period, they may want to delay distributions (withdrawals) from their tax-deferred accounts until years in which they have no earned income and are in a lower tax bracket,

If they are acknowledging that the delay is costing them - that it is making things worse - that is a step in the right direction.

There are too many avenues of delay in the current system.

We're getting what we wanted. We wanted a delay and an opportunity to look more closely at this thing, and give Congress an opportunity to ask more questions.

Since the installation of these new automated boxes, we've had a delay in getting the proper information for the past month or so, ... In the case that we could not get the proper information, the readings were estimated.

Mr. DeLay explained to officials what he has always said publicly: His role with respect to TRMPAC was limited to serving on the political action committee's advisory board along with other elected Texas officials and to appearing at fundraising events.

Mr. DeLay has a unique understanding of a lot of the big policy debates, and he is somebody who has always worked in the past with his colleagues to make the case that their votes are important. That is one of the reasons he got into leadership, and people still recognize he has a degree of knowledge and influence.

Mr. DeLay has done good for this district but recently he's made some poor ethical choices. It's just time for us to move on.

Mr. DeLay has not taken any gambling money. He doesn't believe in taking money from gambling interests.

Mr. DeLay is confident that when the investigation is over ... they'll conclude he has done nothing wrong.

Mr. DeLay makes decisions and sets legislative priorities based on good policy and what is best for his constituents and the country. Any suggestion of outside influence is manipulative and absurd. Mr. DeLay has very firm beliefs and he fights very hard for them.

Most of these people have done well because of their connection with DeLay, and DeLay has actively tried to place them in key positions knowing that it would help him and the Republicans in Congress, and it has.

Many people who could benefit from insulin are fearful of injections, so they delay treatment five years or 10 years, placing them at risk for serious complications.

Many in the scientific community are concerned that the president's decision will delay development of cures for dread disease for many years, at the cost of countless lives and immeasurable suffering,

So for every four weeks they delay, they lose 80 million dollars, and you can do the math from here.

Security personnel confiscated the envelope for investigation while passengers and luggage were searched, resulting in a three-hour delay in take-off.

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is there, so we have agreed to delay the vote,

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

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

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

I have little doubt that while Iran might produce nuclear power for peaceful purposes that it is also seeking a nuclear weapon. A deal with Russia could delay weapons development, but it would have to be closely monitored.

He'll actually become a hero to the majority of Californians when he vetoes it. The 'Terminator' should announce without delay that this bill is dead meat.

I'd anticipated the Liberals would want to delay the election at least until the spring, if not longer, ... But look, if there's a necessity to have a fall election and the NDP ceases to prop up the government, that could still happen.

Fox had been warned about allowing the S-word on the air. The network could have used a delay and bleeped the profanity. But they chose not to. The network chose to air the segment live. Millions of viewers, including children, were offended by the crude profanity.

France strongly condemns this crime ... (and) calls for an international inquiry to be held without delay to determine the circumstances of, and responsibility for, this tragedy, before punishing the culprits.

Frankly, I would say that the trend of ongoing pressure from Asia isn't a particular surprise. The great percentage of the impact from Asia has probably already been felt in Boeing's stock price, but there will be some residual delay associated with earnings.

I don't think it is appropriate to delay my decision about the Olympics any further. As much as I would enjoy representing my country in Italy, I'm afraid that at this point in the season my focus has to remain with the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured

For most enterprises, it will take them 18 months for testing and planning before they can start deploying Windows Vista anyway, so this delay won't affect their plans all that much.

For too long Tom DeLay has been the subject of a partisan witch hunt by Ronnie Earle and the media that has ultimately led to a distorted public image of assumed guilt.

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

I expect him to make it through the primary fairly handily, but my sense of this is that DeLay is in trouble over the course of this election cycle.

I don't view it as a delay because everyone was planning on it being in the fall if not later. There is some relief it's not going to be delayed longer.

I don't want it to sound as if this is all my idea. I'm just the chairman of this board. Do you want us to delay this and study it further?

If it is just a hoax to delay a test, it's pretty immature. If it is a bomb threat, I'm glad (the authorities) are taking precautions.