Too Late Quotes - Page 5

• There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Character

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are

  Chad Kroeger

  Stars, Knows, Who You Are

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• You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

  Charles Kettering

  Should Have, People, Research

  The Scientific American, p. 243, August 1934.

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• But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mistake, Should Have, Acting

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.302, Anchor

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• It's the Devil's way now,
  There is no way out,
  You can scream and you can shout,
  It is too late now.

  Thom Yorke

  Devil, Way, Scream

  "Song: '2 + 2 = 5'". 2003.

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• Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves.

  Walter Hilton

  Kindness, Taken, Thinking

  Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Cancer, Thinking, Dying

  "Timeless Identity". lesswrong.com. June 3, 2008.

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• It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.

  R. S. Thomas

  Hurt, Heart, Destination

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

  John Wooden

  Opportunity, Preparation, Strikes

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• He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Writing, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: An essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by A. Murphy] Poems.- v. 2-4. The rambler.- v. 5. The idler. History of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia.- v. 6-8. The lives of the English poets.- v. 9. Lives of eminent persons. Letters, selected from the collection of Mrs. Piozzi and others. Prayers and meditations.- v. 10. Philological tracts, &c.- v. 11. Miscellaneous tracts, &c. Dedications. Reviews and criticisms. Tales of imagination. The adventurers.-”, p.59

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• I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.

  Jim Cramer

  Reason, Economy, Paid

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• At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

  Hesiod

  Saving, Literature, Ends

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• There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will never forget his face, his smile, his sorrow. He is one of the millions robbed of hope and dignity by charlatans discussed in this book. Wherever and whoever he is, I apologize to him for not having been able to protect him from such an experience. I humbly dedicate this book to him and to the many others who have suffered because the rest of us began caring too late.

  James Randi

  Book, Caring, Boys

  James Randi (1987). “The Faith Healers”

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• People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Past, Hands

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Past, Thinking

  "Eastwood discusses new movie and new president". The Associated Press Interview, www.odt.co.nz. December 12, 2008.

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• Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

  David Hoffman

  Thinking, Doors, Wind

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

  Will Ferrell

  Dog, Decision, Screw Ups

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• I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

  Katherine Waterston

  Childhood, Acting, Performing

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• Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Limping, Tales

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1784). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Including the Whole of His Posthumous Pieces, Letters, &c”, p.15

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• Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

  Martial

  Ashes, Glory, Late

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• Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

  Ovid

  Medicine, Delay, May

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• The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

  Plautus

  Cost, Substance, Fool

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1767). “Comedies of Plautus”, p.29

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• I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.

  Gabriele d'Annunzio

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Men, Evil, Heaven

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