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Timing Quotes (page 528)

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. Maya Angelou
In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child. Kurt Vonnegut
Leno said the rainy weather in California "couldn't have come at a worse possible time. Today was the day NBC was supposed to burn down the studio for the insurance money." Jan. 21, 2010 Jay Leno
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats. Anne Sexton
Annie Dillard quote: "You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your..."
You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Annie Dillard
Virginia Woolf quote: "I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely."
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. Virginia Woolf
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity."Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad. Richard Russo
Robert Musil quote: "A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some..."
A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage. Robert Musil
What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place. Barbara Kingsolver
Oscar Wilde quote: "I am always late on principle, my principle being that..."
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde
The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything... Harold Brodkey
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003) Edward Said
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. William S. Burroughs
- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing. Ken Kesey

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