Too Late Quotes - Page 19

• Escape before it’s too late.

  Wallace Shawn

  Before It's Too Late, Late

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• I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.

  Tom Courtenay

  Worry, Want, Knows

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

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• The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.

  Duke Ellington

  New Orleans, Trying, Association

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• What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.

  Jessica Zafra

  Home, Bathroom, Sometimes

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• It's much too late to save myself from falling.

  Elton John

  Fall, Late

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

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• I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.

  Nat King Cole

  Messages, Old You, Sooner Or Later

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• I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

  Olivier Martinez

  World, Born, Late

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• If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.

  Sal Mineo

  Years, Guy, Realization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You see, the thing about dreams is that it’s never really too late to make them come true.

  Sherryl Woods

  Dream, Late

  Sherryl Woods (2017). “A Chesapeake Shores Collection Volume 2: Driftwood Cottage\Moonlight Cove\Beach Lane\An O'Brien Family Christmas”, p.128, MIRA

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• There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Distance, Procrastination, Grace

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• Quite frequently, he who goes too fast gets there too late - or not at all.

  Zig Ziglar

  Bikers, Late

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• The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

  Robert Breault

  Aging, Fewer, Seems

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• The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Struggle, Long, Vision

  "Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why are William and Kate paying tribute to him on their visit to India?" by Kirstie McCrum, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2016.

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• When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

  Edward Abbey

  Serious, Desperate, Situation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

  Edward Abbey

  Honest, Should, Trade

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

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• Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

  Martin Amis

  Running, New York, Artist

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.64, Random House

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• The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Sea, Pirate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

  V. S. Naipaul

  Father, Thinking, People

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.240, Vintage

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• Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

  Kurt Cobain

  Careers, Looks, Want

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• After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Responsibility, Personality

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• There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Apathy, Complacency, Action

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• No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Desire, Infinity

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

  Samantha Stosur

  Christmas, Sports, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

  Denis Hayes

  Earth Day, Mass, Starvation

  "Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times" by Matt Ridley, www.wired.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

  John Armstrong

  Bravery, Be Brave, Morrow

  John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.141

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