Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take over. The reason to do research and writing is that it at least makes me feel not entirely replaceable. If I didn't write, I don't know if I would do surgery.
Atul Gawande
Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
Brad Sherman
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
I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.
Dick Cheney
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
Marc Faber
I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.
Mark Grotjahn
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
Mikhail Gorbachev
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Norman O. Brown
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Pierre Corneille
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
