Delayed Action

Famous quotes containing the words delayed and/or action:

“When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.””
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:1.

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)