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Quotes About Timing

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.
~ Mike Birbiglia
There's no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn't a wrong way, either.
~ Natalie Massenet
When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.
~ Peter Lynch
There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
~ Harper Lee
The time has to be right and the heart willing.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
~ Robin Gibb
Jiu Jitsu is about waiting for the right time to do the right move.
~ Ryron Gracie
I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.
~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
~ Sydney Smith
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
~ Henry James
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
~ Adam McKay
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.
~ Alexander Kotov
Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?
~ Anne Spencer
I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.
~ Asafa Powell
I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.
~ Barry Sanders
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
~ Bill Cosby
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
~ Bill Vaughan
The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
~ Chanakya
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
~ Chris Patten
When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.
~ Cloris Leachman
God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time.
~ Dillon Burroughs