Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Chan

We have a window of opportunity to prevent a pandemic or at least delay the spread of a pandemic.

The extra week makes all the difference. We were running out of options to get to the Rebel, and the week's delay makes a big difference. His work this morning was perfect, and he's all set to go.

Ban Ki-moon

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

Virat Kohli

I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.

Adolf Galland

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.

Terry Riley

Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.

John Pilger

We're at least a quarter of a year delayed from what the most recent timetable was.

There is a time when justice delayed can become justice denied. I hope this does not become that kind of situation.

We are happy it's the weekend. My neighbor's kids are hoping for a delay in the storm.

Aesop

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

Aesop

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Rick Renzi

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

The delay may give them the opportunity to negotiate instead of rushing to market.

Robert Jones

The delay in getting help for these people is a national disgrace. We're here to make sure that doesn't go any farther.

(The delay) has come from chambers, but that is the only guidance I have. The conclusions of law will not be issued today.

The delayed e-VAT detracted from the overall credibility of the fiscal reform program, and we will wait until the e-VAT is implemented fully, including the rate increase from 10 percent to 12 percent scheduled for January 2006, before considering its positive effects on government revenues." ()

Aeschylus

There is no avoidance in delay.

Rod Brind'Amour

When you're on the ice, you see it before everyone else does and there's that split-second delay where you know what's coming.

Sam Endicott

Our flight was super delayed from London. There was a minute where we though it was only going to cancel.

Steel's been hard to get after (hurricanes) Katrina and Rita. They really delayed our substation projects.

I think they are trying to spread it around, to keep everybody happy and so they don't get delayed by a bottleneck in one operation.

Buddy Bell

I think the two rain delays didn't help matters.

I think everybody has cooperated with the government, and the evidence showed Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.

I said I could but with rain delays and stuff, I told them their parents would get tired of that drive every week.

It is probably prudent to wait and delay. At some point this year the market will turn around.

I thought that this would be resolved quickly, and Congressman DeLay can get back to Washington and resume his post. But obviously, the game here is to keep Congressman DeLay out of his leadership post in the Congress.

I think those people may have already been starting down that pathway toward Alzheimer's, and you can delay or reduce the rate of that pathway proceeding.

I think the 10th District (of North Carolina) sent him to Washington to work for them, not Tom DeLay or Karl Rove.

Please do not delay -- the time to make firm commitments is now. Honor your pledges now.

David Berg

But what a prosecutor wants is someone in the meetings. I think someone has to have rolled over on DeLay.

He's going to be looking after a program that has been fraught with delay, faulty science, mismanagement and misdirection.

John Velazquez

We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.