When - Quotes
When you bit the hand that fed you, you expected that extended hand to curl into a fist.
As soon as you have a kid, you know for sure that you`re going to die. When you have a kid, you see your own gravestone.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.
When you see a tiger, you had better not delay your prediction of its probable behaviour.
When you know what a man needs, you know the man, more often than not.
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
Hard times show you who your real friends are. That is because the point of friendship, in evolutionary terms, is to save you in hard times when it`s not worth anyone else`s trouble.
Knowledge is always better - safer - in the long run than ignorance, no matter how dismayed one may feel when one first understands certain facts.
One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.
In all true life there comes a moment when a man is so deep in passion, it is as if he had cast himself into the waters of Niagara without a life belt.
There are dizzying moments in life when we see everything clearly, when we are aware of our power and our potential, when we see what it is we have been too timid or cowardly to do. These are life’s decisive moments. They come to us unannounced, like death or conversion.