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Quotes About Timing

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.
~ Fu Xi
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing"; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
~ G. K. Chesterton
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maybe we'll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I'll be right for you and you'll be right for me. But right now, I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing in life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sam blew out 10 candles and in the distance Mary Lou Retton received a perfect 10 on her floor routine. And he almost felt like he, by blowing out the 10 candles at the precise moment that he had, had been what caused her to get the perfect 10. He fanaticized that the universe was a Rube Goldberg machine. If he had blown out only 9 candles, maybe the Romanian girl would have won instead.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sam felt a peacefulness come over him when he was playing Donkey Kong in his grandparents' pizza parlor. When he could time the little Japanese Italian plumber's jumps and ascend the staircases at the right pace, it felt as if the universe was capable of being ordered. It felt as if it were possible to achieve a perfect timing. It felt like synchronicity.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Talvolta i libri non ci trovano finchè non è il momento giusto.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You don't want to meet someone like you too early in your life, or you won't ever like anyone else.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
?ôi khi ph?i ch? tá»›i má»™t th?i Ä'i?m thích h?p, nh?ng cu?n sách má»›i tìm ??n chúng ta.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I stort sett allt som är dåligt här i livet är en följd av dålig tajming, medan allt som är bra är en följd av bra tajming (s. 114).
~ Gabrielle Zevin
and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing in life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing." "That
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Es preciso encontrar las historias en el momento adecuado de nuestra vida. Recuerda: las cosas que nos emocionan a los veinte no tienen por qué ser las mismas que nos emocionarán a los cuarenta, y viceversa. Esto es así por lo que respecta a los libros y también a la vida.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A veces los libros no nos encuentran hasta que llega el momento adecuado.
~ Gabrielle Zevin