Ill Timed Quotes

#1. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.

Lord Chesterfield

#3. Karma can be an ill-timed mistress who always calls when your Mother-in-law is the first to answer the phone ... . and it would be a completely sad story had it not been so surreally hilarious.

Josh Stern

#4. The real working class, though they hate war and are immune to jingoism, are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it.

George Orwell

#5. Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#6. Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. learn: v.t. to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, practice, or experience - to commit to memory - to come to know or be aware of. Obviously,

Ronald D. Davis

#8. She saw only that he was quiet and onubtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.

Jane Austen

#9. The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Sydney Pollack

#10. Maybe we should stop asking how do we get people to pay for music, and start asking how do we let them pay for music? from Ted Talk

Amanda Palmer

#11. A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ...

Lois Wyse

#12. Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.

Mike Dooley

#13. I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Matthew Fox

#14. Nobody knows you like people you grew up with.

Tana French

#15. Very good laws may be ill timed.

Montesquieu

#16. The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

Italo Svevo

#17. When I thought of the ways I preferred to die, I wanted to be a hundred years old and surrounded by generations of adoring descendants. Though a hair dryer and an ill-timed fall into a tub was far more likely. I never considered deer or drunk drivers.

Molly Harper

#18. Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

Martial