A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap. Caitlín R. Kiernan
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity! Iain Banks
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. William Saroyan
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people. Vivienne Westwood