#postpone

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it. ↗

— Tertullian

#complete #completing #either #hurrying #indeed

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#i #martyrdom #postponed #preferred #prepared

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fulfillment #increases #postponed

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#always #beating #brooklyn #come #fight

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#behind #bigots #fools #front #go

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#economy #ethics #postpone #project #society

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ↗

— Horace

#anything #cure #eye #hasten #hurts

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#constantly #dynamics #enjoyment #future #postponed

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse. ↗

— Claire Danes

#collapse #following #i #into #july