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• The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.

  Ann Patchett

  Light, Sight, Needs

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Bel Canto”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Endurance, Tumbling, Surf

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Time, Memories, Future

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Mother, Disappointment

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.64, Candlewick Press

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• And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fall, Together, Pieces

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.336, Penguin

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• The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you’re going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Stubborn, Way

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• My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Stupid, Sound, May

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

  Abbie Hoffman

  College, Race, Two

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• And God help them both, if it hadn’t been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid.

  J.R. Ward

  Stupid, Helping, God Help

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.435, Penguin

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• Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

  Gail Godwin

  Time, Memories, Forever

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• Finally here, Imma star with the timing. My swagger is chill and my flow is reclining.

  Drake

  Stars, Humble, Cocky

  Song: Do What You Do

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• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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• Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly

  Mitch Albom

  Eyebrows, One Day, Sage

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• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  Tony Kushner

  Zebras, Moving, Orchids

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.31, Theatre Communications Group

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• So much in life came down to timing.

  Kate Morton

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Timing is a sensitive thing.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sensitive

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• This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

  Deb Caletti

  Grief, People, Upset

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

  Scott Adams

  Song, Hip Hop, Age

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• Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one.

  Charlaine Harris

  Lying, Two, Oil

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1177, Penguin

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• The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

  John Evelyn

  Time, Memories, Work

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• I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Long, People, Waiting

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• On My Last-Place Finish in the 50-Yard Dash During Little League Tryouts “It kinda looked like you were being attacked by a bunch of bees or something. Then when I saw the fat kid with the watch who was timing you start laughing…. Well, I’ll just say it’s never a good sign when a fat kid laughs at you.

  Justin Halpern

  Kids, League, Laughing

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• You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

  Cassandra Clare

  Winter, Russia, May

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• Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Perfect, Luck, Rely

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• Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mean, Amazed

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