Too Late Quotes - Page 38

• Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Years, Two, Pirate

  Song: A Pirate Looks At Forty, Album: A1A, 1974

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• But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Mother, Men, Hands

  "Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)". Book by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929.

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• It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Drug, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Change, Changing The World

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.119, Penguin

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• The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

  Sydney Smith

  Mistake, Writing, Dinner

  Sydney Smith (1848). “The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes Complete in One”, p.343

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• Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Realizing, Moments, Captured

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• Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

  Robert Harris

  Writing, Years, Hot

  "The Ghost". Book by Robert Harris, September 26, 2007.

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• Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Tired, Heart, Cease

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, War, Boston

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fall, Found You, Perfect

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  James Goldsmith

  Leadership, Motivation, Business

  "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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• Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

  B. C. Forbes

  Life, Business, Forget

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• It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivation, Vacation, Years

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• Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Regret, Moving, Apology

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• You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

  Loni Anderson

  Marijuana, Smoking, Quitting

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• The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

  Seymour Cray

  Technology, Coders, Computer

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• I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

  William Wilberforce

  Prayer, Soul, Devotion

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• All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

  Ezra Pound

  Despair, Void, Strange

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• Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Life, Sadness, People

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• So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

  Freeman Dyson

  Life, Courage, Humor

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.1, Pantheon

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• If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

  Seth Godin

  Success, Waiting, Marketing

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• I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love You, Butterfly, Self Love

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• When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Fall, Hard Work

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• In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

  Pico Iyer

  Gossip, Appetite, Ideals

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 09, 2011

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• Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Business, Taken

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