Quotes about timing

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“I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm”

“I loveI have loved ye from the moment I saw ye, I will love ye ’til time itself is done, and so long as you are by my side, I am well pleased wi’ the world.”

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”

“I heard some interesting things about your performance up here."

"I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.”

“Times will change for the better when you change.”

“I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her…'
'… Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
'… Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.”

“Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”

“Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.”

“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.”

“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”

“It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.”

“I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.”

“Leo: "So… giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?”

“A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.”

“Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing”

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”

“I've only been gone a week," I reminded him.
Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.”

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

“I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.”

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”

“every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns”

“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”

“Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”

“Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.”
Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.”

“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”

“All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

“Excuse me if I
Have some place in my mind
Where I go time to time.”

“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”

“You should shine with all of your light all the time.”

“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us…”

“If a relationship is on-and-off within the first year, that’s an immediate sign you are wasting your time.”

“Time, the greatest thief of all.”

“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”

“Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never.”

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”

“Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO… accidentally, of course.”

“How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.”

“No, no. It's always a good time for you to call, Roza.”

“Time to toss the dice”

“I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.”

“The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.”

“The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.”

“Speak your latent conviction… Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”

“I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

“Not everyone wants this conventional little life you’re rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it’s time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.”

“Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.”

“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”

“Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”

“You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”

“I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.”

“A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

“The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.”

“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

“But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

“Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen”

“Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.”

“I saw endless depths of brown, the depths I'd fallen into so many times. No red rings.
Dimitri… was not a Strigoi.
And he was weeping.”

“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”

“I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”

“Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.”

“I hate time. It never does what you want it to.”

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”

“There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things take their course.”

“She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.”

“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”

“my youth,
one time,
that time
I knew
even through the
nothingness,
it was a
celebration
of something not to
do
but only
know.”

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”

“There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

“… at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force."

"An intelligent force?" said Will.

"Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.”

“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”

“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

“When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.”

“Love can touch us one time
And last for a life time
And never let go till
We're gone.”

“You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking?”

“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”

“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”

“Wroth, darling,” she purred, smiling so sweetly. “I can’t wait for the next time I get to put my mouth on you.” In an instant the smile faded and she snapped her teeth and yanked her head back as if she was chewing something free.”

“I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run."
--Alyss”

“He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.”

“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.”

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

“Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”