Nothing is to the purpose if, when I come back to Judea, I come too late.
4 seconds sound clip from the Ben-Hur (1959) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:40:22.875 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Your eyes have never left it all through these months. I can recognize pain.
- But still, my counsel is to wait.
- Gratus is to be replaced. The governorship goes to Pontius Pilate.
- When?
- It's very much to our purpose.
- Nothing is to the purpose if, when I come back to Judea, I come too late.
- That is the thought which has punished me every moment I've spent here.
- Here is a part of my life which you have made for me. I shall remember it.
- Whoever the gods are, they take small interest in an old man's hopes.
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