Too Late Quotes - Page 23

• The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

  Mary Blakely

  Years, Needs

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• I would rather stop [making movies] too soon than too late.

  Luc Besson

  Late

  "The Long Goodbye". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.

  Theoren Fleury

  Order, Hopeful, Important

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• The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don’t realize they’re learning until it’s too late.

  Harold Eugene Edgerton

  People, Way, Realizing

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• There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

  Anh Do

  Two, Late

  Anh Do (2011). “The Happiest Refugee: The Extraordinary True Story of a Boy's Journey from Starvation at Sea to Becoming One of Australia's Best-loved Comedians”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

  Clayton Christensen

  Energy, Needs, Investing Your Time

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• I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Regret, Wish, Done

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• My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  Address at Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, www.americanrhetoric.com. July 14, 1948.

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• The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to redefine the way people experienced computing. That Apple is already dead. Very adroit moves might be able to save the brand name. A company with the letters A-P-P-L-E in its name might survive, but it won't be the Apple of yore.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Moving, Past, Technology

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• So crucify the ego, before its far too late
  To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical,
  And you will come to find that we are all one mind
  Capable of all thats imagined and all conceivable.
  Just let the light touch you
  And let the words spill through
  And let them pass right through
  Bringing out our hope and reason ...
  before we pine away.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Light, Cynical, Ego

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• Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.

  Zach Braff

  Writing, Biographies, Late

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• To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!

  Spider Robinson

  May, Fool, Enough

  "The Callahan Chronicals". Book by Spider Robinson, 1997.

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• It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Children, Trying, Principles

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.196, e-artnow

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• The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.

  Judith Martin

  Good Night, Morning, Flower

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• If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Gambling, Evil

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.149

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• Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

  Francis Quarles

  Eye, Soul, Firsts

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• 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 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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• There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late.

  Avril Lavigne

  Left, One Thing, Never Too Late

  Song: Let Me Go, Album: Avril Lavigne, 2013

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• We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

  Alexander Theroux

  Time, Memories, Sadness

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• The way to good conduct is never too late.

  Seneca the Younger

  Way, Never Too Late, Late

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