Quotes About Timing

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

You were just too young. And in the wrong place at the wrong time in my life." "A likely excuse. I haven't been 'too young' for some time, and it's taken you nine years to even kiss me again. At this rate, you'll only advance to ravishing me when I'm forty." He dearly hoped he'd be ravishing her at forty. And thirty-five and twenty-nine and the day after tomorrow. Or today. That would certainly move his process along.

When you were just born, it did not take immediate effect. It was waiting. As the process of growth happens, it looks for the right kind of situation and takes effect.

Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

Sir, I'm afraid that the quality of this airline is partly measured by on-time departures. And unfortunately, on-time departures are measured by when we left the gate, not by wheels-up.

Context is all; or is it ripeness? One or the other.

When we are ready, the gods send what we need.

Thomas," I said, coming forward to greet him. "How fortuitous that you should come to see me now!

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

I do think that there's a special connection between Australia and America. It's kind of unexplainable. It's just one of those things. It's all about God's timing. We're thankful to be a part of it.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They both shine when it's their time.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

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.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.