What is deferred is not avoided.
I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.
Hope is a dream deferred.
Pain now is better than pain deferred.
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Better hope deferred than none.
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.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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.
Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not just have dreams but had a responsibility to make them reality. My mom taught me from a very early age that I could do anything I wanted to do.
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.
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.
To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist.
I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.
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.
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
