Greg Iles Quotes

Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.

You may delay, but time will not.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

Hurry up, please, its time.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, what are you waiting for?” “The Second Coming of Christ!” I snapped.

Soon is not as good as now.

We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

We have not the time to take our time.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

I've been described as impatient.