Deferrals Quotes & Sayings

I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this. — Mary Gaitskill

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision. — Bob Goff

She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black. — Rick Yancey

Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels. — Jay Parini

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner. — Sophie Calle

It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I've got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law. — Lee Kuan Yew

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion. — Rene Burri

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody. — Yasmine Bleeth

One essential characteristic of modern life is that we all depend on systems - on assemblages of people or technologies or both - and among our most profound difficulties is making them work. — Atul Gawande

I see you from afar - fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift — John Geddes

Folks look around, what do you see and what do you have in your hand or in your house? Don't you ever underestimate what is in your hand or in your house, it doesn't matter how little it is. — Euginia Herlihy

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough. — E. Nesbit

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out? — Dr. Seuss