Too Late Quotes - Page 25

• 'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Adults

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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• The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rain, Men, Faces

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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• Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.

  M. L. Stedman

  Snakes, Tangled, Ems

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

  Tim Tharp

  Daydreaming, Should, Supreme Being

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

  Jude Morgan

  Love Is, May, Hardest

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• By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.

  Seth Godin

  Study, Case Studies, Cases

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• It is not too late to take another path.

  David Suzuki

  Path, Late

  David Suzuki (2010). “The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future”, p.3, Greystone Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• 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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• Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Sea, Soldier

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.56

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• Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Long, Waiting, Sometimes

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “The Sleeping Beauty Proposal”, p.214, Penguin

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• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

  Jamais Cascio

  Running, People, Decision

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• You are never too old or too broken.  It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Broken, Never Too Late, Late

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• I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me.

  Hannah

  Heart, Dating Someone, Meat

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• I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.

  Pete Goss

  Cancer, Adventure, Marine

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• Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

  Claire Cook

  Years, Stills, Deep Down

  Claire Cook (2014). “Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life”, p.76, Marshbury Beach Books

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• The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

  Paula Fox

  People, Special, Important

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• It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Genius, Matter, Manifest

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• Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

  Samuel Beckett

  Fate, Chance, Existentialism

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to be invoked by each of us and practiced if the 'masculine' rational imbalance of our civilization is to be righted before its too late.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Humility, Civilization

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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• Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
  And marching single in an endless file,
  Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
  To each they offer gifts after his will,
  Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
  I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
  Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
  Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
  Turned and departed silent. I too late
  Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Morning, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

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• We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

  Richard Schiff

  Dream, Sleep, Delay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground?

  Danny Denzongpa

  Dream, Perseverance, Writing

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