Too Late Quotes - Page 18

• for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

  Iris Murdoch

  Dream, Opportunity, Space

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.25, Penguin

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• It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Important, Encounters

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.673, Penguin

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• It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

  Edna Ferber

  Realizing, Terrible, Ready

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.160, Booklassic

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• Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.

  Robin Williams

  Scripts, Holes, Process

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Book, Maturity, Adults

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

  George Sand

  Experience, Lessons, Late

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Perfect, Decision, Second Best

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Self

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

  Ezra Klein

  Gun, Mass Shootings, Talking

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• That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

  Francois Mauriac

  Grace, Mystery, Late

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• If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

  Mark Twain

  Needs, Late, Ifs

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• To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.

  Thomas Gray

  Happiness, Wise, Pain

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91

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• Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Blessed, Thinking

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• That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

  Michael Crichton

  Doe, Human Nature, Environment

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. ... Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Ocean, Earthquakes, Differences

  "Schwarzenegger Explains Why He Went Green". ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2006.

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• That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Change, Morning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

  Elvis Presley

  Life, Waiting, Now Or Never

  Song: It's Now or Never

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• Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Kissing, Blood

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• I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Rushing, People

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.93, Random House

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• It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Weakness, Masters

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• It's far too late for anything but magick, as the future is clearly up for grabs.

  Antero Alli

  Late

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• It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back

  Loretta Swit

  Feelings, Never Too Late, Late

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• I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it.

  Dwight Schultz

  War, Thinking, Talking

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• Escape before it’s too late.

  Wallace Shawn

  Before It's Too Late, Late

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