Too Late Quotes - Page 35

• The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Lying, Creating, Understanding

  Aldo Leopold (1987). “Game Management”, p.18, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Ecosystems, Giving

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• Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Hurtful, Late

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• Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Harmony, Thee, Harmonious

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

  David Letterman

  Book, Trying, President

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• It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.

  Kristen Ashley

  Matter, Done, No Matter What

  Kristen Ashley (2014). “The Will”, p.366, Rock Chick LLC

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• One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Blood, Heaven

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• But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting For Godot, Moments, Cruel Fate

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

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• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Breathing, Long

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• It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cities, Excuse You, People

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

  Tommy Douglas

  Courage, Political, World

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• I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

  Clint Eastwood

  Birthday, Thinking, Important

  "Eastwood: Unknown 'Gran Torino' cast 'a chance'". The Associated Press Interview, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. December 10, 2008.

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• In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Money, Funny Inspirational

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• There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

  Charles Kingsley

  Kindness, Reality, Generosity

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• Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

  Stephen Leacock

  Life, Learning, Tissues

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

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• Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

  Franz Liszt

  Music, Missing, May

  Speech by Joseph W P Wong at "Hong Kong: Turning China into Opportunity" Seminar, www.info.gov.hk. November 06, 2006.

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• A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

  Dave Matthews

  Love, Relationship, Boyfriend

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

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• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

  Andre Maurois

  Time, True Evil, White Hair

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

  Christopher Morley

  Gideon, Literature, Bedroom

  "The Twin Bedside Anthology" by Charles Lee, (p. 183), 1946.

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• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  Bill Nighy

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

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• When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Brother, Children

  "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch tv too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

  Bob Moorehead

  Life, Hate, Tired

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• Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Adventure, Swimming

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• People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Motivational, People, Focus

  "A Planetary Problem". Interview with Amy Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2005.

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