Too Late Quotes - Page 39

• Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Love, Dream, Time

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• When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

  John Wooden

  Opportunity, Late, Preparation And Opportunity

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• My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Freedom, Mistake, Failure

  "United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit". openjurist.org. May 6, 2003.

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• When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

  Alanis Obomsawin

  Money, Nature, Food

  "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.

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• I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Moving, Fall

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• It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.

  Jennie Garth

  Heart, Priorities, Never Too Late

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• What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

  Marina Keegan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan, abcnews.go.com. May 30, 2012.

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• The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Mother, Father, Rights

  Congressional Record, 91st Cong., 2d Sess, 116, pt. 21: (28028-28029), August 10, 1970.

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• And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you live among diseased souls. And you must not lay a stumblingblock in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons, as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.

  Richard Baxter

  Block, Blow, Fire

  "The Christian directory".

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• God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how.

  Richard Halverson

  Christian, Perfect, Important

  Richard C. Halverson (1986). “No Greater Power: Perspective for Days of Pressure”, Multnomah Pub

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• Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi"

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• Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Life, Wisdom, People

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• We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

  Charles Dickens

  Expectations, World, Mist

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion: World Classics”, p.218, World Classic

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• He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the drought to come. And when he finally pulled away, my throat was thick with unspoken words, my heart heavy with every apology I'd ever denied him. But it was too late for promises. The time had come for goodbye.

  Rachel Vincent

  Goodbye, Heart, Kissing

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.424, MIRA

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• It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Running, Dark, Meditation Practice

  Sharon Salzberg (2017). “Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation”, p.94, Hay House, Inc

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• Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

  Mitch Albom

  Past, Forgiving, Able

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.

  Kirsten Miller

  Looks, Sometimes, Late

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.126, Penguin

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  It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Understanding, Timing

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• I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Life, Thinking, World

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

  Bryan Davis

  Broken, Bird, Body

  Bryan Davis (2012). “Liberator”, p.141, Zondervan

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• It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Never Too Late, Late

  Karen Kingsbury (2013). “The Chance: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

  Javier Marías

  Mean, Knowing, Listening

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• You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Light, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.

  Paul Auster

  Running, Mean, Trying

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