Time Punctual Quotes

#1. I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

Roland Barthes

#2. It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Andrew Ferguson

#3. The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ...

Rose Macaulay

#4. You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village.

-African Proverb

Nicholas D. Kristof

#5. Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

Taya Kyle

#6. Most leave to be on time, thus always late.

Brian Spellman

#7. I believe in you," she blurted, tears in her eyes. "I just ... I want you to know that despite everything ... I believe in you.

Rachel Van Dyken

#8. The generosity, to me it's less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

Taya Kyle

#9. Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

Robert Downey Jr.

#10. We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#11. To be punctual meant to exist as a point, meant that as well as to arrive somewhere on time. Constant existed as a point - could not imagine what it would, be like to exist in any other way.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#12. The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Laurence J. Peter

#13. No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... Mystery at Geneva

Rose Macaulay

#15. Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

Georg Simmel

#16. Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness.

Vann Chow

#17. Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

Roger Ross Williams

#18. It shall never be said that God dishonours His bills. The credit of the Most High never was impeached, and never shall be. He is punctual to the moment: He never is before His time, but He never is behind it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen.

Thomm Quackenbush

#20. When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

Elizabeth George

#21. When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys.

George Stevens Jr.

#22. Argh ... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

Kelly Rowland