Though nature is wasteful of material things, there is no waste of spirit. And then after long years there comes, unheralded and unlooked-for, the day of the Appointed Time... John Buchan
The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. John Buchan
The timid temper lives in perpetual terror, the nobler one braces itself to endure when ever the appointed time shall come. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
For everyone there is an appointed time. Egyptian Proverb