Too Late Quotes - Page 32

• Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

  H. Beam Piper

  Prayer, Waiting, Apathy

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books

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• Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Truth, Character, Hypocrite

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.419

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• It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

  Dave Ramsey

  Obstacles, Turns, Never Too Late

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• Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Years, Attention, Trouble

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• Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

  Luc Montagnier

  School, Aggravation, Our Society

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• Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

  William Osler

  Life, Heart, Soul

  Sir William Osler (2008). “The Quotable Osler”, p.76, ACP Press

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• Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

  William Spencer

  Time, Flower, Fall

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• Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

  George Washington

  Time, May, Reason

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1792). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.408

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• Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

  Robert Breault

  Special, Realizing, Persons

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• Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

  Carl Sandburg

  Loss, Weight Loss, Never Too Late

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• So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours
  I may have too much, but I'll take my chances
  Cause God's stopped keeping score
  And you cling to the things they sold you
  Didn't you cover your eyes when they told you that he can't come back
  Cause he has no children to come back for
  It so hard to learn, there's so much to hate
  Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of
  And the wounded skies above say it's much too late
  So maybe we should all be praying for time

  George Michael

  Song, Children, Hate

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• It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, Unhappy, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Know How, Knows

  Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

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• When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

  Alexander Pope

  May, Aging, Young

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,”, p.307

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• The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.

  David Bach

  Wealth, Easier, Stills

  David Bach (2003). “The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich”, p.112, Crown Business

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• No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

  Jennifer Echols

  Want, Detectives, Facts

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Going Too Far”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.

  Steve Aylett

  Needs, Looks, Bombs

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• Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Hero, Fighting, Cities

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin

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• If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Rights, Class, People

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• Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

  Katharine Anthony

  Achieve, Born, Right Time

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• Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

  Stig Dagerman

  Art, Journalism, Masters

  Stig Dagerman (1988). “German autumn”

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• Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiring, Mean, Accountability

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• Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Gentleman, Sixty

  "False Hope: Famous Quotes During the Great Depression", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Mushrooms

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• I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Journey, Years

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