Too Late Quotes - Page 8

• But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mistake, Should Have, Acting

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.302, Anchor

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• The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

  Don Berry

  Littles, Negative, World

  Don Berry (1960). “Trask: A Novel”

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• If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Cancer, Thinking, Dying

  "Timeless Identity". lesswrong.com. June 3, 2008.

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• It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

  John Wooden

  Opportunity, Preparation, Strikes

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• People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Past, Hands

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Past, Thinking

  "Eastwood discusses new movie and new president". The Associated Press Interview, www.odt.co.nz. December 12, 2008.

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• No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

  Will Ferrell

  Dog, Decision, Screw Ups

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• I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

  Katherine Waterston

  Childhood, Acting, Performing

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• Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

  Ovid

  Medicine, Delay, May

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• I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.

  Gabriele d'Annunzio

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Men, Evil, Heaven

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• It’s never too early or too late to benefit beings.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Benefits, Late

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• In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when
  we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.

  Margaret Sanger

  New York, Simple, Illustration

  Margaret Sanger (2004). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.367, Courier Corporation

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• What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

  Jonas Salk

  Would Be, Genes, Needed

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

  Francis Quarles

  Fashion, Soul, Shells

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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• She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Yelling

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• However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

  Tito Colliander

  Asceticism, May, Down And

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• The young May moon is beaming, love.
  The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love.
  How sweet to rove,
  Through Morna's grove,
  When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
  Then awake! - the heavens look bright, my dear,
  'Tis never too late for delight, my dear,
  And the best of all ways
  To lengthen our days
  Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

  Thomas Moore

  Dream, Sweet, Spring

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'The young May moon'

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• A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

  Kenneth Clark

  Thinking, People, May

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• Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

  Rachel Klein

  Funeral, Body, Cry

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

  David Mitchell

  Phones, People, Firsts

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.70, Vintage

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• Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

  John Lubbock

  Blessing, Late, Has Beens

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• It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

  Jim Carroll

  Falling In Love, Want, Ask Me

  Song: It's Too Late

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• Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Class, Let It Go

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

  Roger Ailes

  Integrity, People, Excellence

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