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  • Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

    Men   Blow   Years  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin
  • Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts.

    Life   Encouraging   Time  
  • There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

    John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
  • There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

    FaceBook post by Senator Rand Paul from May 23, 2015
  • There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

    Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
  • The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

    Courage   Dust   Leader  
  • [On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

    Mom   Mother   Tennis  
  • There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

    Remark made in Smoking Room of House of Commons on being dropped from Margaret Thatcher's Shadow Cabinet,
  • There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

    Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.70, Open Road Media
  • You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

    Inspiring   Tired   July  
    Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.
  • There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?

    Liberty   Causes   Lovers  
    "Rand Paul's Outside-the-Beltway Thinking Draws Voters" by Salena Zito, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 01, 2015.
  • Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

  • [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

    Writing   Silence   Mind  
    "A Qualified Farewell". Essay by Raymond Chandler (early 1950's), published in "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" edited by Frank MacShane, 1976.
  • I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

    "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.
  • There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

    Hype   Gathering   Deceit  
    Remarks by the Vice President to the World Economic Forum, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 24, 2004.
  • There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

  • There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.

    Powerful   Ego   Together  
  • There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

    Time   Baby Boy   Son  
    1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.
  • There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.

    Beautiful   Moving   Men  
  • There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

  • 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.

    Lying   Book   Mind  
    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs in non-league. There comes a time in your career when the pennies got to drop, where you've got to understand decisionmaking at the right, poignant moments in the game. When to pass, when to dribble, when to shoot. Game-changing moments, can you be the guy that sits there and takes the responsibility. And the great players do.

    Source: www.theguardian.com
  • There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

    Alaska   Lovers   Beloved  
    Sri Chinmoy (1974). “Kundalini: The Mother-power”, p.37, Aum Publications
  • 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.

    Sea   Parent   Wade  
    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin
  • Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

    Life   Lying   Fate  
  • There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.

    Men   Needs   Toilets  
  • 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.

    Beauty   Strong   Pain  
  • There comes a time when only anger is love.

    Denise Levertov (1987). “Poems 1968-1972”, p.106, New Directions Publishing
  • No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

    Airplane   Oxygen   Needs  
    Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
  • But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.

    Lying   Years   Creative  
    Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.19
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