Too Late Quotes - Page 23

• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• A bloody good thing, but too late.

  Noel Coward

  Government, Good Things, Bloody

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• I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Mom, Growing Up, Mean

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I have come too late into a world too old.

  Alfred de Musset

  World, Late

  'Rollo' (1833)

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• How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.

  Glenn Beck

  Kings, Believe, Rights

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• The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

  Clayton Christensen

  Teaching, Past, Data

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• Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper.

  Robert E. Lee

  Reading, Mean, Army

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• If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Men, Air

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• It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Opportunity, Eras, Advent

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• I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

  Emily Dickinson

  Yield, Hands, Bird

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.421, Harvard University Press

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• I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Humanity, Chance

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure
  When long delay has given the evil strength.
  Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
  He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

  Ovid

  Long, Evil, Haste

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