Quotes About Timing

It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

Things happen in their own sweet time.

I have been thinking about our conversation and about your book, and I am afraid that I expressed myself badly yesterday. When I said that one may love and be loved at any age I ought to have added that sometimes this love comes too late. It comes when one no longer has the right to prove to the loved one how much she is loved, except by love's sacrifice.

If anyone asked why we decided to start a family when we did, I said, 'Most couples get kittens for their kids to play with; we decided to get a baby for our cats to play with.' That wasn't true, of course, but it was good for a laugh.

there is no such thing as two absolutely simultaneously-occurring events in MIDI—any two events must be at least 0.6 milliseconds apart

For things to land in you're lap. You must be sitting down.

Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.

We can trust God to provide what we need, when we need it—and to work out our lives in ways that are better than we ever imagined.

I suppose we'd been waiting for each other all our lives.

My view is that at your age you shouldn't worry too much about losing love. If it is right, it happens, its meant to be. The main thing is not to hurry, especially when your young and new to love. Love must come to both. Know for sure that nothing good, true and real gets away when it comes to love. And if it doesn't work out (for whatever reason) also know that God is closest to those of us with broken hearts.

Trust hangs somewhere between knowing what your heart longs for and trying to dictate the shape or timing or outcome of your heart's desire. It lies in the willingness to accept the particulars of how and when and where God chooses to intervene. It waits in the cool shade of surrender.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

motive: being motivated by a desire to improve the relationship • timing: considering the best time to have a conversation • location: choosing surroundings that support communication • attitude: having an attitude conducive to a productive discussion • responsiveness: listening in such a way as to encourage honesty • expectations: openness to whatever results from this effort

You trust you'll know what you need to know just when you need to know it.

While it is God who opens the door of opportunity, you must be available to walk through it.

God always moves upon a person before He moves within a person.

God will be faithful to deliver you, if you will be faithful to believe Him. It might not come in the manner or time you are expecting, but faith and patience birth the blessings:

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

General Meade will commit no blunder in my front, and if I make one he will make haste to take advantage of it."28 Since the morning of June 28th, when

AL MIRAR ATRÁS me di cuenta de que mi experiencia en Sony demostraba que contar cara a cara la historia adecuada, en el entorno preciso, en el momento idóneo y de la manera más pertinente, puede inducir a los oyentes a actuar, y también puede modificar la trayectoria de éxitos del narrador.

Peter is saying simply that what appears to be a lengthy delay to us is nothing to God. Peter is making no comment here about the timing of the Parousia, for he wrote the entire letter to insist that the timing will be just as Jesus promised.

Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”