Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Boredom is a choice. Like tardiness. Or interrupting.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You're so focused on this event that you're making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job.

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

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