Too Late Quotes - Page 5

• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Confused, Innovation, May

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• Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin.

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Reading, Dolphins

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• It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

  Neil Gaiman

  Appreciate, Late, Sentiments

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• But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Our Love, Letters

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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Firsts, Mets

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• I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Memories, Emptiness, Realizing

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• At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

  George Clooney

  Positive, Generosity, And Love

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• Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam':
  Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
  Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late; live today.
  Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say; Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

  Martial

  Wise, Time, Believe

  'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15

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• What we want, we have for our pains
  The promise that if we but wait
  Till the want has burned out of our brains,
  Every means shall be present to state;
  While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,
  While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,
  When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold,
  And everything comes too late-too late.

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Time, Pain, Mean

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• Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Freedom, Tyrants, Democracy

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• But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

  Natalie Portman

  I Love You, Thinking, Care

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• It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

  Martial

  Life, Wise, Believe

  "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), I. 16. 11 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
  To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

  Martial

  Life, Wise, Yesterday

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.251

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Sweet, Poison

  "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

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• He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Late

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Nature, Children, Stupid

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• Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
  The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, May, Drink

  Robert Herrick (1891). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Years, Training

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.377, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Purses, Economics, Economy

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• If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Clouds, Waiting

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• A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.

  Verner E. Suomi

  Mean, Waiting, May

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• We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Becoming, Global Warming

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• It's never too late to fall in love.

  Sandy Wilson

  Sweet, Falling In Love, Sweet Love

  It's Never too Late to Fall in Love (1953 song)

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• It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.209

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• There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

  Toby Keith

  Fall, Waiting, Fool

  Song: In Other Words, Album: Boomtown

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