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Quotes About Timing

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.
~ Nora Roberts
Falling in love has nothing to do with time. It can take a year, or an instant. It happens when its ready to happen.
~ Nora Roberts
No second chance? A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
~ Nora Roberts
Now if you tell me there were six other naked women and three attendants hanging around who saw you shove her into the locker,i'll have to kill you. There was nobody else there.We're not idiots.she grimaced. I know you think we are, but we're not stupid enough to have done it in front of witnesses. Actually, we timed it that way so she'd be stuck in there longer. she smiled weakly. it seemed like a good idea at the time.
~ Nora Roberts
I think there's a reason you moved in next door. I think there's a reason I saw you all those years ago, but didn't meet you until now. I don't think I was ready for you until now.
~ Nora Roberts
Ä'sta e num?rul meu privat, nu cel de serviciu. Îmi dai un telefon? -Sigur. Probabil c? peste o or? ar fi prea curând,nu? Ea râse ÅŸi îi puse carneÅ£elul ÅŸi stiloul în mân?.
~ Nora Roberts
You're asking for it, Julie Lynne." "When
~ Nora Roberts
When you wanted to much, too quickly, he thought, it was best to take things slow.
~ Nora Roberts
Some things don't happen as fast as you like." Boyle turned her hand over in his, then gave in and pressed it to his cheek. "It doesn't mean they won't happen.
~ Nora Roberts
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
People in France have a phrase: Spirit of the Stairway. In French, Esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party...
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.
~ Claire Cook
She thought about orgasming on command. How was that even possible? You came when your body was ready to come, not when someone else told you to.
~ Claire Thompson
dire à la voix qu'il est tard)
~ Claude Royet-Journoud
children will learn when they are ready to learn, not when we're ready to teach them.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The logic is, for example, "I can invest in my career during the early years when our children are small and parenting isn't as critical. When our children are a bit older and begin to be interested in things that adults are interested in, then I can lift my foot off my career accelerator. That's when I'll focus on my family." Guess what. By that time the game is already over.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.
~ Colleen Gleason
Wow!" Dutch exclaimed as he took a gander at me. "You are a beautiful woman, Abby." "And you have excellent taste!" I deadpanned. I'd waited for years to say that line.
~ Victoria Laurie
2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? And how would it be If one 2 was me? Or if the first 4 was you Divided by 2?
~ Langston Hughes
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
~ Lao Tzu