Sarah Dessen Quotes

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Life is about timing.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Timing in life is everything.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

Timing in life is everything.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

You never know what next week brings.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.