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Timing Quotes (page 464)

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement. Abraham Lincoln
Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost. Betty Smith
Voltaire quote: "I loved him as we always love for the first time; with..."
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. Voltaire
George R. R. Martin quote: "The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that."
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. George R. R. Martin
Mother Teresa quote: "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. Stephen Fry
Steven Wright quote: "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright
But all progressive movements have to beware their own successes. The progress they make reinvents the society they work in, and they must in turn reinvent themselves to keep up, otherwise they become hollow echoes from a once loud, strong voice, reverberating still, but to little effect. As their consequence diminishes, so their dwindling adherents become ever more shrill and strident, more solicitous of protecting their own shrinking space rather than understanding that the voice of the... Tony Blair
When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us. Rex Stout
Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make. Friedrich Nietzsche
But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of fiction, and there was a kind of dreadful exhiliration in seeing things that had troubled me for years come out in a new form, a form over which I had imposed control. Stephen King
Rafael Sabatini quote: "Take your time, now,’ said Mr. Blood. ‘I never knew speed made..."
Take your time, now,’ said Mr. Blood. ‘I never knew speed made by overhaste. Rafael Sabatini
There's something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen level in the atmosphere. All this happens to me when I surface from a great book. Nora Ephron
Mother Teresa quote: "She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh."
She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh. Mother Teresa
At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however, we meet with individuals who are untouched, unsullied, by the common grief. We say of them that they have died to the world. They live in the moment, fully, and the radiance which emanates from them is a perpetual song of joy […] like the clown, we go through the motions, forever simulating, forever postponing the grand event- we die struggling to get born. We never were, never are. ... Henry Miller

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