There Comes A Time Quotes - Page 4

• I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

  John McGahern

  Book, Thinking, Differences

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• All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time." As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Hero, Needs, Noses

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• There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it’s in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.

  David Levithan

  Keys, Hands, Ideas

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.42, Egmont UK

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• There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Time, Heart

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• The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown.

  George Henry Lewes

  Lying, Book, Mind

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Book, Track

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• When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

  Fred Durst

  Reading, Kids, Parent

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• There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Race

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• Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

  James Hilton

  Thinking, Doe, Cost

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• I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Balance, The End Of The Day

  "TED NUGENT Says PANTERA's Version Of 'Cat Scratch Fever' Had 'No Soul, No Balls". Blabbermouth.net, May 14, 2006.

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• You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tired, Iron, Feet

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

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• Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Laughter, Fate, Blow

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books

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• There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

  John Green

  Sea, Parent, Wade

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

  Mario Puzo

  Powerful, Revenge, Humble

  "The Godfather".

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• It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Ashamed, Knows

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

  Christopher Pike

  Quiet, Reason, Weariness

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• Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

  Michael Grant

  Hero, Needs, World

  Michael Grant (2010). “Lies”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

  Bette Midler

  Time, Trying, World

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• I think there are more limiting factors in my career than just being chocolate. I think being a curvy girl is also a factor. Being someone with natural hair is also a factor. Those are things that I can't change. Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself. The world might limit me, but as the type of artist I am, I'll create those opportunities.

  Danielle Brooks

  Girl, Artist, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There comes a time when only anger is love.

  Denise Levertov

  Denise Levertov (1987). “Poems 1968-1972”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

  Todd Helton

  Talking, Done, Want

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• There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Men, Despair

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

  David Viscott

  Beauty, Strong, Pain

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• I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

  Ted Alexandro

  Thinking, Careers, Comedian

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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