Quotes About Timing

Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride.

God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Crime 101: Getting out one job too early puts you on the beach. Getting out one job too late puts you in a cell.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you'll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

Everyone finds their voice at different times in their life.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Sometimes I wish we'd met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be. But

He sighs a defeated kind of sigh that hurts my heart. "Goddamn it, Kavinsky." "I'm sorry. I like you, too, John, I really do. I wish . . . I wish we got to go to that eighth grade formal." And then John Ambrose McClaren says one last thing, a thing that makes my heart swell. "I don't think it was our time then. I guess it isn't now, either." John looks over at me, his gaze steady. "But one day maybe it will be.