Overdue Quotes

• To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Veterans Day, Military, Men

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• Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  Way, Three, Sitting

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• This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

  L. Neil Smith

  Years, Dinosaurs, Asteroids

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• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  Dan Lipinski

  Senior, Long, Drug

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• Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

  J. D. Hayworth

  War, Long, Enforcement

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• Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Letting Go, Careers, Firsts

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• We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Long, People, Choices

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• The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

  E. P. Thompson

  Reading, Views, Organization

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• It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Children, Long, Parent

  "Time to End the Censorship" by Phyllis Schlafly, eagleforum.org. December 29, 2004.

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• I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

  Adam Yauch

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Long

  "Fictional character: MCA". "Beastie Boys: Video Anthology", www.imdb.com.

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• Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Rights, People, Justice

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• The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Attitude, Long

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

  Daniel Gordis

  Book, Past, Israel

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• Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

  Bill Vaughan

  Law, Would Be, Today

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• The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

  Susie Orbach

  Political, Body, Fit

  "Ad men today are wrong on body size" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.

  Ruth Pitter

  Sweet, Flower, Writing

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• It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

  Gareth Roberts

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.

  Daniel N. Robinson

  Oil, Way, Oil Change

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• I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.

  Greg Mottola

  Two, Long, Lows

  Source: collider.com

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• Today is just to the beginning of a long and overdue national discussion on how to protect ourselves from modern cyber crime and evolving national security threats and how to develop the cyber offense strategies necessary to gain a critical security edge in the 21st century. We need the edge, and ideally, a big one.

  Donald Trump

  Long, Needs, Today

  Source: time.com

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• This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue, and I think that the leading economies are very pragmatic and efficient in addressing the issues facing the European economy. That is why we keep approximately 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Europe, Oil

  Source: thesaker.is

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• There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

  Natalie Dormer

  Ethnicity, Uprising, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don't even remember what day it was.

  Bradford Cox

  Writing, Needs, Remember

  Source: pitchfork.com

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