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Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts. -- Winston Groom
Justice deferred is justice denied. -- Diane Watson
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. -- Elizabeth Warren
I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred. -- Portia de Rossi
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. -- Steven Rattner
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode? -- Langston Hughes
I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck. -- Heather Donahue
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment. -- Carol Gilligan
It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities. -- Charles Duhigg
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space. -- Samantha Power
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes. -- Michael Eric Dyson
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. -- Arthur Laffer
A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while. -- Adam Davidson
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. -- A. S. Byatt
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied. -- Andrew Vachss
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As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.' -- Evan Bayh
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect. -- Ben Marcus
My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it. -- Benjamin Koldyke
This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred. -- James Fenton
Hope is a dream deferred. -- Jennifer Stone
Better hope deferred than none. -- Samuel Beckett
What is deferred is not avoided. -- Thomas More
What happens to a dream deferred? -- Langston Hughes
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. -- Pico Iyer
Pain now is better than pain deferred. -- David Brooks
A dream deferred is a dream denied. -- Langston Hughes
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred. -- Ovid
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred. -- Langston Hughes
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. -- James Ellis
Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day. -- Sun Tzu
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred -- Bill Willingham
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. -- Pliny the Elder
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day. -- Umar
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred. -- Charles Frazier
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ... -- Jane Addams
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. -- Walter Raleigh
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode? -- Langston Hughes
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known. -- Patricia Briggs
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited. -- Henry A. Kissinger
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. -- Joseph Fort Newton
Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred. -- Statius
Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are. -- Robert Farrar Capon
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults. -- Eric Hoffer
If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace. -- Langston Hughes
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? â?¢ â?¢ â?¢ â?¢ You think It's a happy beat? -- Langston Hughes
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place. -- Douglas Crimp
Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they've deferred half of each season's salary seven years into the future. -- Max Scherzer
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word. -- Sidney Lanier
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer. -- Charlie Munger

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