Appropriate Timing Quotes

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

I love to interact with people, but there is a time and place for everything.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

There's a time for all things.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

I've been saying how I feel at the wrong time.

Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

In the midst of a discourse, speak not.