Quotes About Timing

All too often guilt was a matter of timing. Y. S., who ran away when her village was bombed, was sentenced to six months' labour camp 'for deserting her place of work', while A. S., who refused to leave her home when the Germans were approaching, was condemned in absentia as a 'traitor to the Motherland'. A minimum of ten years in a Gulag labour camp awaited her.

LIKE OTHER THINGS ABOUT HER, MARY ANN'S MENSTRUAL cycle was so regular that Mussolini might have included it on his train schedules.

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

How long is this to last? asked the inspector finally. And what is it we are watching for? I have no more notion than you how long it is to last, Holmes answered with some asperity. If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it would certainly be more convenient for all of us.

Las cosas siempre aparecen cuando las necesitamos. —Eso no es verdad—replicó. —Sí que lo es. Sólo tienes que decidir si eres lo bastante fuerte y valiente como para aprovechar la oportunidad que se te presenta.

Things happen when they happen, not when you're ready for them.

It was going to happen sooner or later, in any case, Eleanor said. But of course no matter when it happened it was going to be my fault.

In delay, there lies no plenty

Sing before breakfast you'll cry 'before night

When I tell a story, I tell it when I want to tell it, not when you want to hear it.

Vocês policiais são como ônibus. Nunca estão lá quando precisamos, e então, de repente, todos aparecem de uma só vez.

Only a fool rushes to inform of bad news.

I was not the only one who made the mistake of thinking that, because it was something you talked about a lot, it was something you wouldn't do. And after all, you were not the unhappiest person we knew. You were not the most depressed (think of G, of D, or T-R). You were not even - strange as it now sounds to say - the most suicidal. Because of the timing, so near the start of the year, it was possible to think that it had been a resolution.

God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else.

One night - it was in June, '89 - there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn, and glances at the clock.

So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.

Maybe sometimes in life you just miss your chance

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Men know life too early women know life too late.