It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.
Volker had been appointed to review many of the operations of the United Nations.
The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.
We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
Postponement: The father of failure.
The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming.
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they're doing, we're always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they're going to do.