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Timing Quotes (page 285)

Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again. Jennifer Weiner
but if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass. Elizabeth Gilbert
Graham Greene quote: "And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time..."
And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed. Graham Greene
Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered. Doug Coupland
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full tim? And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel. Ray Bradbury
If you've ever wondered where the good songs go After they've had their day, You'll be glad to meet a man I know, Wrinkled old and gray. He collects the tunes that time has thrown aside— Puts them under lock and key; For a penny he is glad to set them free. Ira Gershwin
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing. Maya Angelou
Albert Camus quote: "the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same..."
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered. Albert Camus
But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it. Nicholas Sparks
And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves. Who's turned us round like this, so that we always, do what we may, retain the attitudeof someone who's departing? Just as he, on the last hill, that shows him all his valleyfor the last time, will turn and stop and linger, we live our lives, for ever taking leave. Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne Tyler quote: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had..."
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Anne Tyler
Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice. Cornelia Funke
Nicholas Sparks quote: "At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of..."
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it... Nicholas Sparks
we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hippocrates quote: "Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater..."
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity. Hippocrates

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