Punctually Quotes

#1. We wrote our reports and sent them off to Dr Bairstow, who presented himself punctually at 0930 every morning to stare at us. It was beyond his nature to smile and encourage, so we could only assume he was there to intimidate any lingering

Jodi Taylor

#2. The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#3. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate.

E. M. Forster

#4. My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Peggy Ashcroft

#5. For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

Christopher Columbus

#6. I could not believe in the joyous morning bound. It was disbelief well-founded: thirty-five years between then and now, and while I rise punctually I do so grudgingly; each morning brings its own renewal of the battle....

Edwin O'Connor

#7. A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Lin Yutang

#8. Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. I used to like wolves; they always arrived so
Punctually in sheep's clothing at the mortuary
To be prepared for burial by my father who
Showered his wrath on my mother with blows
From his fists at night; this warrior, this Lord

Abigail George

#10. As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

Elizabeth Of Hungary

#11. Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.

Gianrico Carofiglio

#12. A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

Confucius

#13. ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning.

Ian Fleming

#14. I too could go, oh, yes, at a moment's notice I could go and be as though I had not been, except that the long habit of living indisposeth me for dying,

John Banville

#15. Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, they seek.

Thomas Pynchon

#16. All of it conspiring to carry them through those first few minutes and through the front door of the house with a lightness that doesn't allow for anything as potentially heavy as an acknowledged fresh start.

Robin Black

#17. For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

Mary Quant

#18. And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

Eleanor Cameron

#19. The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

Alain De Botton

#20. The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually ... but I can't really do it.

Thom Yorke

#21. We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.

Chuck Klosterman

#22. Aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

Richard Russo

#23. Nothing changes and everything does.

Karleen Koen

#24. Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

Sebastian Junger

#25. All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved.

Gary Chapman