Late Quotes - Page 26

• We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

  Charles Dickens

  Expectations, Too Late, World

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

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• Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Moving, Mean

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• I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

  Groucho Marx

  Nurse, Too Late, Care

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• Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched)

  Kelley Armstrong

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Tales of the Otherworld”, p.49, Bantam

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• It is never too late to be wise.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Too Late, Being Wise

  Daniel Defoe, Thomas Roscoe (1831). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, p.188

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• Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class

  P. C. Cast

  Morning, Cereal, Class

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• But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.

  Neil Postman

  Ignorance, Technology, Simple

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.130, Penguin

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• Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you

  Ring Lardner

  Sweet, Dark, Night

  Ring Lardner (2013). “Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings”, p.702, Library of America

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• You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funeral, Would Be, Why Not

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.249, Canongate Books

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• This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Judging, Too Late, Cost

  Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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• Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

  Deb Caletti

  Soccer, Father, Lightning

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• I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Moving, Past, Serial Killer

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• I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Wings, Desire, Too Late

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• cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

  Cassandra Clare

  Too Late, Cleverness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

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• Death will be too late to bring us aid.

  William Carlos Williams

  Aids

  "Paterson".

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• Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light and a whooshing sound, and the room was plunged into blackness. Tessa gave a yelp of surprise, and Jem laughed softly. "Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Voice, Darkness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Too Late, Problem, Revelations

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing”, p.409, Hachette UK

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• My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Healing, Blood

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Too late Bella. Now, it's too late. Show me.

  J.R. Ward

  Too Late, Show Me, Shows

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1537, Penguin

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• Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine

  J.R. Ward

  Too Late, Helping, Chance

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

  Jane Austen

  Agony, Soul, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1372, Wordsworth Editions

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• Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Sick, Too Late

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Trying, One Day

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• there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cutting, Age, Superstitions

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.66, Penguin

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• Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

  Alexandra Potter

  Eye, Too Late, How You Feel

  Alexandra Potter (2010). “You're the One that I don't want”, p.223, Hachette UK

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