Postponed Quotes
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All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.
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More Postponed Quotes
[The unavoidable] racial war, the war of Slavdom against Germandom...[in which the] Anglo-Saxons with whom we are related by common ancestry, religion and civilisatory striving, allow themselves to be used as tools of the Slavs...if this question...cannot be solved by diplomacy, then it will have to be decided by armed force. The solution can be postponed but the question will arise again in 1 or 2 years. The racial struggle cannot be avoided - perhaps it will not take place now, but it will probably take place in one or two years.
— Conversation with Arthur de Claparède, the Swiss ambassador (10 December 1912), quoted in John Rohl, 'Germany', in Keith Wilson (ed.), Decisions for War 1914 (London: University College London Press, 1995), p. 41.
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
winston churchill— Chapter 4 (Sandhurst), p. 72
A life postponed too long might never be lived.
joan slonczewski— Part 2, Chapter 9 (p. 111)
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
Karl Kraus— Karl Kraus, Sayings and Contradictions (1909).
Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed for three weeks.
— Author unknown; found on a handmade cardboard sign hung in the United States Capitol, House Rules Committee chambers, c. 1970. Photocopies of this sentence have appeared on the walls of other work areas in the Capitol. Reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.
— Book I : "Concerning Discipline" Chapter 19
