Quotes About Timing

When the hour's too late for rescue, it's still early enough for revenge

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

And he says I have lousy timing

Tell me when you want to pick it up again. Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight. I'll do that. Lunch?

When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

I must remember that, Philip thought: when you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement. p314

There's a time and place for spontaneity

Siempre es el momento propicio para hacer lo correcto.

Cuando esté a punto de recibir una negativa, he de conseguir un aplazamiento.

pero es una carta que solo se juega una vez, y prefiero reservarla para una mano ganadora.

We almost made it that time. A little courage on someone's part and we might have made it. We were swollen and ripe for an instant together, ready for picking, offering our store to each other's hesitant fingers . . . a little tender courage at that rare right instant, and things might well have turned out differently. . .

Mi lenne itten, ha mindenki akkor állna neki a fogát sikálni, amikor eszébe jut?

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

I'm always in Awe of God's Greatness, His M. O. (Method of Operation), His timing, His Might and His Power. He's God all by Himself!!! Abba, I love You.

There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

There are four ways God answers prayer: No not yet No I love you too much Yes I thought you'd never ask Yes and here's more.

Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.

I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.