Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: late

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Quoted In The Grove:
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.
~Michelangelo

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
~Ashley Montagu

People always talk about how time flies; it’s become sort of a colloquialism now. You don’t really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s ‒ and I’m sure time will move even faster as I get older.
~Ben Gibbard

EndQuote:
It gets late early out there.
~Yogi Berra

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IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.
~Joanne Fluke

Midway between youth and age like a man who has missed his train; too late for the last and too early for the next.
~George Bernard Shaw

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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The best thing about being too late is that there’s no more need to hurry.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

One of man’s greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy‒which means he often finds the remedy too late.
~Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
~G Edward Griffin

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
~Quintilian

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.
~Seth Godin

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I’m a bit hesitant to do anything because I’m actually kind of lazy and I’d like an easier life from now on. The world’s a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you’re working.
~Robbie Williams

I’ve been on the tour for many, many years. It’s time for me to go now, before it’s too late.
~Stefan Edberg

It’s never too late to do nothing at all.
~Allen Ginsberg

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Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
~Laurence Sterne

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

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
~Katharine Anthony

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It’s too late to correct it: when you’ve once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
~Lewis Carroll

It is never too late to do right.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too late. It’s hatched.
~Christopher Paolini

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When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that there is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
~William Osler

Too late I stayed, ‒ forgive the crime!
Unheeded flew the hours;
How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.
~William Spencer

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It’s never too late to go out and get that feeling back.
~Loretta Swit

Better never than late.
~George Bernard Shaw

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
~Lewis Carroll

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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
~Ellen Glasgow

To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
“Written in water,” swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too late for fame.
~Mary C Ames

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes…. Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
~Marcus Valerius Martial

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Live for yourself. Take it before it’s too late.
~Chad Lowe

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
~Will Carleton

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
~Plautus

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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 for the dead is too late
~Quintilian

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

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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, ‘I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.’
~Haruki Murakami

Less late night drinking leads to less late night snacks. Drinking definitely leads to bad eating.
~Chris Pontius

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.
~Benjamin Franklin

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There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it’s no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.
~Jim Cramer

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
~Bernardo Bertolucci

Well, he’s just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.
~Jim Cramer

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Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan’s family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
~Brendan I Koerner

The superior thing … was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual.
~Rose Macaulay

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
~Steven Wright

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In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.
~Honeysuckle Weeks (actor)

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 (Duke, soldier, poet)

It’s never too early or too late to benefit beings.
~Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Buddhist)

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You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
~David Brin

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

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I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn’t going to be that way any more.
~Bob Ross

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

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.
~Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia, Nobel Peace)

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It’s never too late to change your luck
~Diplo

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
~Jane Fonda

It’s never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.
~Dave Ramsey

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
~Camille Paglia

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late [l]earning.
~Kim Jong-il

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it’s finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or “finishing the drill” in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.
~Leon F “Lee” Ellis

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Better to start early than finish late.
~J R Rim

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.
~Elizabeth Strout

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
~Elbert Hubbard

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Posted From The Grove

Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country…the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.
~Leonid Brezhnev

Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn’t quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn’t counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.
~David Hoffman

I don’t make any secret of the fact that I’m closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn’t too late for that.
~Garry Kasparov

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They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.
~Dejan Stojanovic (Serb)

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Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus’ revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.
~Chiang Kai-shek

I grew up in New York City in the late ’70s, at a time when U.S. ‒ China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
~John Pomfret

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There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.
~Edward Kennedy

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles… How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people’s freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.
~Shimon Peres

For we did makeup. But we didn’t forgive each other. And we didn’t take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.
~Alice

It’s never too late to try to end a conflict.
~Chris Alexander

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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
~H Beam Piper (author)

I admit that his [Jefferson] politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.
~Alexander Hamilton

If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. ‘Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,’ she says, ‘you won’t have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.’
~Ben Ehrenreich

Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you’re paying attention you’ll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.
~Joseph O’Neill

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No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that…
~Henry Parry Liddon

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The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.
~Nostradamus

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By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
~Stephen Kinzer

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.
~Noam Chomsky

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclamations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
~Benjamin Franklin

It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
~Marty Meehan (US Rep/ UMass Pres)

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If you sit around and wring your hands as they’re all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.
~James Inhofe

The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it’s probably too late because the United States has never done that; it’s always gone it alone.
~Edward Said

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My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
~Audrey Hepburn

That’s what Bernie Sanders has turned into, a late night talk show host who’s completely ineffective as a Senator, and tweets out platitudes and will not use the power of his movement to get anything done.
~Jimmy Dore

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The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge “Main Street,” where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!
~John Gresham Machen

The best time to listen to a politician is when he’s on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he’s exhausted. Then he doesn’t lie.
~Theodore White

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Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment ‒ protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants ‒ have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won’t be clear until it is far, far too late.
~Chelsea Manning

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I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it’s there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.
~Martina Navratilova

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.
~Graydon Carter

It is only natural that people’s wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.
~Ban Ki-moon

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it’s too late.
~David Shore

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One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.
~Stephen Kinzer

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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries’ experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience ‒ in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
~Henry A Kissinger

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time ‒ not too early, not too late.
~Jeb Bush

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I think all of us in our lives feel like we can’t make a difference or we can’t make a change or it’s too late or we’re too tired or we’re too scared.
~Kerry Washington

I’ve already got my rent paid, and it’s too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don’t like or believe in.
~Wilford Brimley

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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
~John Edward Christopher Hill

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
~Shirley MacLaine

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People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That’s why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don’t make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They’re hungry for leadership.
~Robert Kennedy

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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I’m too old, it’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
~Bobby Fischer

I have come too late into a world too old.
~Alfred De Musset

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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
~Livy

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave
~John Armstrong

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!
~Jane Siberry

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We’re losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, ‘Oops, we made a mistake’ ‒ it’s too late. This is the world we live with.
~W S Merwin~

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
~David Suzuki

It’s too late to stop climate change, that’s for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.
~Hermann E Ott

Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it’s not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.
~Patch Adams

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It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it’s not too late for America.
~Jeff Goodell

I have to have faith that we’re going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we’re going to do it before it’s too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.
~Josh Fox

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have ‒ certainly Americans have it ‒ is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.
~E O Wilson

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After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn’t fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late.
~Nicole Krauss

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
~Jonathan Swift

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
~Elizabeth I

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I’ve got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it’s too late. But writing poems and letters doesn’t seem to do much good.
~Sylvia Plath

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won’t get a lot done in the mornings, but we’ll work late and be honest.
~Kinky Friedman

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The long day wanes:
the slow moon climbs:
the deep Moans round with many voices.
Come, my friends,
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world.
~Tommy Douglas

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Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It’s a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it’s inside you it’s too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it’s your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn’t trigger, it doesn’t need to.
~Steve Aylett

James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His onslaught is massive and leaves no room for response. Every sentence is an immediate cocked grenade. You pick it up, then realize that it is too late. It just blows up in your face. And yet he still managed to stay human, tender, accessible.
~Raoul Peck

I remember back in the 1960s ‒ late ’50s, really ‒ reading a comic book called ‘Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.’ Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.
~John Lewis

There was a manifesto in the late ’60s/early ’70s, and it basically laid out what ‘black art’ was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules ‒ I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.
~Kara Walker

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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late ’40’s and early ’50’s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
~Angela Davis

We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

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Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.
~Stig Dagerman

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they’re late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
~Bob Greene

The news comes somewhat late, but I’m glad to hear it nevertheless.
~Malcolm Campbell

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
~Russell Baker

From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.
~Alex Pareene

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The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and ’80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
~Roger Mudd

Live news teaches you some incredibly strong lessons: that every day is a new day, and it’s never too late to fix something.
~Nancy Dubuc

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~To Scale: TIME (10:19) late-comers to the universe

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The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it’s never really too late to begin.
~David Bach

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It’s too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.
~John Wooden

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
~Alexander Graham Bell

It’s now or never. This is simple to say, but then to live like that is not easy at all, I’m sorry. You have to be aware enough so that you can see situations as they pass in front of you and be able to catch the instant, whatever it is. Many times, you just don’t see the moment when you were yawning and then it’s too late.
~Vincent Cassel

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
~Lee Iacocca

It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
~Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
~Andre Maurois

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
~Herbert Hoover

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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
~Charles Kettering

If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.
~James Goldsmith

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
~Harold Geneen

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He that rises late must trot all day.
~Benjamin Franklin

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
~Fred Brooks

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Stop looking for the ‘right’ career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what’s available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.
~Mike Rowe

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
~P T Barnum

It’s never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you’re capable of.
~Seth Godin

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It’s not our fault, and we’re not a failure in any sense just because our star didn’t glow white hot from the start. Being seen as a late bloomer was once a mark of vitality, patience, and pluck.
~Rich Karlgaard

Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you’re a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.
~Cheryl Yeoh

The early bird catches the worm, while the late bird removes the dirt in hope of finding worms.
~John Andrews

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
~J Paul Getty

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I don’t try to get all the meat off the bone. When I get a good figure, I just move something. Too many people try to hit the peak price, and they hold on until it is too late.
~Kirk Kerkorian

If you jump into a market when everyone else is doing the same thing, you’re probably too late. On the other hand, if you get into a market early, when it’s fundamentally undervalued, then wait for it to become extremely overvalued, and sell once a true top has been established, you should do very well.
~Michael Maloney

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it’s too late. The reason I will do that is because that’s what I’m paid to do.
~Jim Cramer (Mad Money)

To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.
~Mark Fisher

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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

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.
~W Edwards Deming

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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don’t realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
~Barbara Tuchman (historian/journalist)

People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They’ll forgive the lateness of the work if it’s good, and if they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as the others if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.
~Neil Gaiman

I was one of the more talented ones at the design firm I joined, so I conducted my work pretty shrewdly. Except I wasn’t a morning person, so I was quite frequently late for work. On top of that, it was a fairly big company, they were fussy about the dress code, and I got chewed out quite often.
~Akira Toriyama

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When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent’s moves. One’s moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense ‒ at least to all the rest of us they didn’t. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.
~Mark Taimanov

During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.
~Jose Raul Capablanca

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I didn’t learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of ’em.
~Tom Watson

There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
~Boo Weekley

Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it’s too late and I’m too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.
~Heikki Kovalainen

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I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.
~Jose Bautista

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
~Branch Rickey (signed Jackie Robinson)

There’s an old saying in football ‒ the circus doesn’t stay in town forever. The older you get, the more you realize there’s a deeper meaning. It’s better to leave 3 hours too soon than a minute too late.
~Jason Witten

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My trainer don’t tell me nothing between rounds. I don’t allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It’s too late for advice.
~Muhammad Ali

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I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late.
~John Wooden

I did have that happen when I was with the Celtics once ‒ I was there late and no one woke me up when I fell asleep in a chair. But at the Celtics they didn’t like me as much, so they let me snooze away and made fun of me.
~Daryl Morey

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Football is simple, you’re either on time, or you’re too late. If you’re too late then you have to leave earlier.
~Johan Cruijff

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players’ pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.
~John Terry

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When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I had to train at unusual hours. A few times, I ran home from my lab late at night, which was 20 kilometers out of town.
~Wolfgang Ketterle

For all the marathons I’ve run, including the Ironmans that I’ve run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I’m okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it’s the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.
~Casey Neistat

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I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I’m nervous for them.
~Derek Jeter ‒MLB

Everybody wants to play late, everybody wants to be clutch.
~DeAndre Jordan ‒NBA

Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that’s what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that’s part of your responsibility, and you learn that’s what makes it exciting. That’s what makes it fun!
~Wayne Gretzky ‒NHL

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You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.
~Robert Forster

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
~Tom Brady

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§ VIDEO:

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

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous ‒ especially when you were working late at night.
~Derek Jacobi

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I loved shooting ‘iGo to Japan‘ because we got to be outside a lot, and our call times were really late because we had so many night scenes. It was pouring rain, so the cast would huddle together in between takes and drink hot chocolate. Shooting that episode was such a great bonding experience.
~Jennette McCurdy

I’m on the list that I thought I’d never be on. I’m not sitting here thinking, ‘God, I might get this part’ or ‘is it too late for me to play Hamlet?’ It’s really about: who do I get to work with?
~Joel Edgerton

I think it’s never too late to learn ‒ or it’s a lesson that’s good to continue learning ‒ that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.
~Alison Brie

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I’d never tried as hard with anything as I did with ‘The Office,’ and it was one of the things I’m proud of. I wasn’t trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn’t have been prouder of it.
~Ricky Gervais

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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

I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there’s this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin’ young, I’ve never had that.
~Peter Falk

A lot of people say I’ve missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What’s so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.
~Matt Dillon

I’ve often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I’ve wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was… magic.
~William Christopher

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.
~Tom Cullen

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In ‘George Lopez‘, I played Veronica who’s a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it’s much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn’t difficult or challenging at all because it’s not like I haven’t been a teenager.
~Aimee Garcia

‘Chewing Gum‘ is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle ‒ it’s about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it’s not what they imagined. That it’s not terrifying.
~Michaela Coel

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There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.
~Hugh Grant

It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.
~Helen Hunt

When I was doing ‘A Disappearing Number‘ in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn’t written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.
~Simon McBurney

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My first mother’s role was in ‘Aradhana.’ But after that in mid to late 1980s, I was being offered more roles of mothers.
~Sharmila Tagore

This I realized very late, that villain remains villain and are never able to become artists. We are never counted as actors and always addressed as villains.
~Mukesh Rishi

I had a film career in the late 90s. And then I stopped having a film career because suddenly I didn’t do anything.
~Douglas Henshall

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren’t paying me for my acting, for God’s sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
~Angela Carter

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While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which ‘Star Wars‘ became a symbol. Late capitalism can’t produce many new ideas any more, but it can reliably deliver technological upgrades. But ‘Star Wars‘ didn’t really belong to the science fiction genre any way.
~Mark Fisher

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made ‒ no matter how low the budget ‒ got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.
~Roger Corman

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
~Wim Wenders

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You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.
~Clint Eastwood

Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.
~Tom Cruise

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Growing up, I missed the whole ‘Three Stooges‘ thing. Either they weren’t on the station in my hometown, or we hadn’t bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I’m pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.
~Roger Ebert

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in ‘The Nutty Professor‘. I really liked that.
~Mike Judge

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When I was young, I’d watch guys on ‘The Tonight Show‘, Buddy Hackett, guys like that, where all they’d be is funny. Later, I remember, on ‘Late Night with Letterman‘, I remember he’d have Jay Leno and Richard Lewis as first guests and the entire point was to entertain and be funny, and I think talk shows have kind of lost that.
~Norm MacDonald

In a late-night monologue, it’s not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.
~Anthony Jeselnik

Late night television is ready for someone like me… standards have gone to an all-time low.
~Howard Stern

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Ninety percent of what I’m listening to overall is like the same tape of Bob Marley’s Greatest Hits. Like, how did I become one of those people on late night TV where they sell anthologies to you and you buy them?
~Robert Sapolsky

What I learned, a little too late, was that the ‘traditional’ Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.
~Martin Short

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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

When I started doing stand-up in the late eighties, that was not an uncommon thing, that people dressed for the stage… And that’s when I started to really embrace it in a way and get more flamboyant and foppish with the way that I dress.
~Paul F Tompkins

I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
~Benedict Cumberbatch

I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. I’m happy they got there in the end.
~Beverly Johnson

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.
~Andre Leon Talley

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The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people ‒ who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.
~Robert Powell

It’s too late for me to get married before I’m famous. You never know people’s intentions.
~Carmelo Anthony

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I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I’m going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It’s a role model to me as much as to anybody else.
~Stephen Collins (Seventh Heaven)

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
~Michael Phelps

We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way ‒ we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.
~Jerry Garcia

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When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the ‘Analytical Review.’ What was the ‘Analytical Review?’ It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
~Claire Tomalin

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.
~Jon Landau

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~Omeleto: Confessions (11:16) forgiven and forget, a comedy

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~Omeleto: The Cardinal and The Computer (12:35) systems in collision of late

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~Omeleto: Clac (19:35) very late in life, almost a comedy

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Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In the late ’60s, there were the the three B’s: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.
~Adam West

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you’re about to forget.
~Gary Wolf

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it
~Samuel Johnson

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Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child’s confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers’ lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
~Criss Angel

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I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late ‒ whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written.
~Jeanette Winterson

As long as ‘Pearl Harbor‘ stays in the past, it’s perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.
~Stephen Hunter

I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies… Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
~Orson Welles

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today’s art ‒ what I call ‘Bankers’ Dada‘ ‒ mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I’ve seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, ‘A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards‘, is apt in these days of witless chancers.
~Billy Childish

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
~Patrick Kavanagh

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
~Hakan Nesser

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
~W H Auden

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
~James A Michener

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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven’t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
~Henri Cartier-Bresson (Fr photog)

The only way my mother’s beauty really affected me was that I always assumed that someday I would look like her. Then, late in my teens, I looked at a photo of her when she was younger than I was then, and I realised, no, it’s never going to happen.
~Katherine Waterston

My mother taught me to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day, so I always do that ‒ I could be partying or working late, but I’m never too tired to take care of my skin.
~Emilia Clarke

No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face.
~Demi Moore

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Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
~Luc Montagnier

Not too soon and not too late; the secret of education lies in choosing the right time to do things.
~Natalia Ginzburg

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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
~Thomas Sowell

One of the reasons it’s important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.
~Suzanne Collins

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I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.
~Henry David Thoreau

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it’s too late by college.
~Danica McKellar

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
~Henry David Thoreau

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My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‘You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.’
~Stephen Covey

The youth are very important to me, they’re the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it’s never too late and there’s no right or wrong way to do anything.
~Sheila E

Let’s take flight simulation as an example. If you’re trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don’t have to get in an airplane until late in the process.
~Roy Romer

It is never too late to study, but it may be too late to learn.
~Leonid S Sukhorukov

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
~Johnny Ball

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A college experience is something everyone should have. Going to Waffle House late at night. Or the gym at midnight, until the wee hours of the morning. Just being kids. Hanging out.
~RJ Barrett

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
~Russell Simmons

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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
~Buddy Rich

Country and western is the music of the devil. That’s the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn’t handle it.
~Rick Wakeman (YES, keyboards/composer)

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
~Alice Cooper

It’s never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
~Sivamani

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We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn’t blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
~Leo Kottke

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My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn’t play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s ‒ and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
~Brendan Gleeson

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can’t handle it because of late-night drinking.
~Maurice Gibb

I’d rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
~Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park)

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
~Jim Diamond (Scot songster)

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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what’s going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I’m sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like ‘Desperado.’ You’re not going to write ‘Desperado‘ between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
~Zakk Wylde

~Eagles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiPqUjLMuA8
~Linda Ronstadt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQyoTIQOOM

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I’m part of that, and now I’m part of the museum that celebrates that.
~Daryl Hall

I would say that Beethoven’s late string quartets are the nearest to God that we’ll ever get.
~Sheila Hancock

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Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it’s too late to become a musician afterwards.
~Peter Tork (Monkees)

I will not give up to sing until the people say it’s enough. I hope it will be very late.
~Julio Iglesias

Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple leaving, and the lady said, oh, I have to hurry home. I’m going to church tomorrow. And her friends said, church? You’ve already been to church.
~Alice Coltrane

She sang late into the night, till her heart was full.
~Anamika Mishra

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During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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Appointments are a waste of time because being early wastes yours and being late wastes the other person’s.
~Evan Esar

It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.
~Lisa Madigan

Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~Thomas Monson

Sunsets are great. Sunrises are a mixed bag. You either got up way too early or went to bed way too late.
~Matt Dillon

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life‒ and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.
~Robert Breault

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
~Hesiod

You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.
~Choudhury

It is never too late or too early; you are never too young or too old. You can do what you can do.
~Israelmore Ayivor

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.
~Immanuel Kant

Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it… Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it’s too late.
~Peter Heller

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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.
~Louis Sullivan

Most of us live in a fog. It’s like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can’t figure out the story. We don’t know what part we’re supposed to play or what the plot is.
~John Eldredge

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The whole mythological side of ‘Twin Peaks‘ was really down to me, and I’ve always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century –
~W B Yeats

Novelists don’t age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
~Martin Amis

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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
~Jean de la Bruyere (Fr philosopher)

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.
~Russell Hoban

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.
~Jean De La Bruyere

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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
~William James

Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?
~Walt Kelly (Pogo)

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
~Epicurus

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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
~Robert Browning

Marseilles isn’t a city for tourists. There’s nothing to see. Its beauty can’t be photographed. It can only be shared. It’s a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you’re in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.
~Jean-Claude Izzo

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late ’60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
~Bonnie Raitt

To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location ‒ that you don’t travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don’t do ‒ we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it’s too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.
~Arthur Frommer

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~Paul Simon: Late in the Evening (3:59) …but so young and long ago

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~Carole King: It’s Too Late (5:05) smiling rendition of saddest words

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~Julian Lennon: Too Late for Goodbyes (3:32) complete with mystery figure

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~1hit1ders: The Grass Roots • Sooner or Later (2:33) joyful, buoyant

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~RHINO: English Beat • Save It For Later (3:43) unlikely, inattentive pub-goers transform

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~Live from Austin TX: Norah Jones • Not Too Late (3:52) hypnotic eyes, piano, voice, married in music

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~Loizos Loizou: Bill Haley and Comets • See You Later Alligator (2:48) ’50s classic, acrobatic dancing

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~Mike Munrow’s Retro: Cornelius Bros. and Sister Rose • Too Late to Turn Back Now (3:25) forewarned is…

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~Isa Harrison Lennon: The Poni-Tails • Born Too Late (2:18) sweet ’50s teen, retro video

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~It’s Now Or Now: Elvis Presley • Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (2:54) the Presley charm, but not in time to the music

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~TOTP: Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams • Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (2:46) staged duet

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~Edgar Aldrett: Talking Heads • Stay Up Late (3:43) baby sitting

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~Rod Stewart: Have I Told You Lately (4:00) grateful for love, in concert

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~Def Leppard: Too Late For Love (3:29) rockin’ to a memory

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~Elvis Presley: His Latest Flame (2:10) shuffle dance mix

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~Janet Jackson: What Have You Done for Me Lately (3:50) dance, in this case

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~Chester: Mwakamba Late (4:14) same planet, different music

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~Wendy Shay: Too Late (3:16) dangerous curves on the road going nowhere

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~Smurfstools: Ricky Nelson • It’s Late (2:04) late date, while family waits

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~siloflo CCC: Willie Nelson w/ Emmy Lou Harris • Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (3:39) harmony as love

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~E5C4P3: Journey • Too Late (2:55) in concert

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I know someone young whose husband left her for another woman. He later came back and wanted to rekindle the relationship. It was too late. His ex-wife had found someone else. Good for her.
~Alicia Villarreal

It’s too late and it’s too bad, don’t think of me.
~Dido Armstrong

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When lovely woman stoops to folly
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away.
~Oliver Goldsmith

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
~John Updike

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
~Marie Corelli

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he’s dead.
~Judith Viorst

It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
~Marcel Achard

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.
~Woody Allen

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I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an echoing hall
Alone and from a chipped plate
The words that I withdrew too late.
~Edna St Vincent Millay

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back
~Laura Moriarty

I was supposed to go out with this girl, but the plans mixed up because I was working late. So I went to her apartment with a flower. She was asleep, but I really wanted to see her. I figured I’d be like Romeo, and climbed up to her balcony and gave her a rose. She was very shocked. After that, it was over.
~James Franco

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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
~William Shakespeare

A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.
~Sandra Gulland

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It’s like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there’s this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person’s gone, and it’s too late to do anything about it.
~Elmore Leonard

*X There’s a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerby invites your eye to come away. Even as you smile a quick hello you let her go, you let the moment fly…Too late you turn your head, you know you’ve said the Long Goodbye.
~Johnny Mercer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJGh2q1353I (from the movie)
‒or‒
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qlBM2dEIns (tango dance sequence)

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We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.
~Eugene Kennedy

And believe me, darling, there’s no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven’t had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they’ve missed out on life and if they don’t hurry up it’s going to be too late.
~Sally Wentworth

With love like that, you can’t get picky about how it finds you or the details.* All that matters is that it’s there. Better late than never.
~Sarah Dessen

*Originally, Loretta Young

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I’ve learned that love is not possessive and I’ve learned that love won’t wait. Now I’ve learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.
~Michael Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQJPL9Yuq0

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again.
Too much, too little, too late, let’s end it being friends.
~Johnny Mathis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-O_ToXdaA

People so seldom say I love you
And then it’s either too late or love goes.
So when I tell you I love you,
It doesn’t mean I know you’ll never go,
Only that I wish you didn’t have to.
~Fulton Oursler

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I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. “Okay,” he said. He took a breath. “What would you do, if you could do anything?” I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. “This,” I said. And then I kissed him.
~Sarah Dessen

“Hey, if you’d wanted to avoid ‘this,’ you shouldn’t have lured me last night. Now it’s too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb.”
“Wow, who says there’s no romance left in the world?”
~Richelle Mead

Say it before you run out of time.
Say it before it’s too late.
Say what you’re feeling.
Waiting is a mistake.
~Haruki Murakami

It is too late to start
For destinations not of the heart.
I must stay here with my hurt.
~R S Thomas

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There’s a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who’ve never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I’m like, ‘Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!’
~Niecy Nash

And happy is the lover.
Tis late to hearken, late to smile,
But better late than never:
I shall have lived a little while
Before I die for ever.
~A E Housman

They say love’s like the measles‒all the worst when it comes late in life.
~Douglas William Jerrold

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Don’t wait until it’s too late to say I love you.
~Stana Katic

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida [Kahlo] forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
~Diego Rivera

Words, how little they mean when they are too late.
~Taylor Swift

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We make up for so much time a little too late.
~Alanis Morissette

Pause and remember It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to start love yourself. It is never too late!
~Jenni Young

Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
~Carl Sandburg

It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
~Drew Barrymore

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A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night.
~James Patterson

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.
~Sarah Dessen

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

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When I was I younger I didn’t want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn’t want to be a clone. Now this was in the late ’70s.
~Neil Tennant

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I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.
~Eric Dickerson

Being a bachelor has its disadvantages: for one thing, he has to get up very early to make the money to stay up very late.
~Evan Esar

I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
~Robert Vaughn

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
~Daniel Defoe

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My parents, Santos and Lupe Padilla, immigrated separately from Mexico and met in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. It was love at first sight and the young couple decided to get married, apply for green cards, and start a family.
~Senator Alex Padilla

As you get older, everybody’s priorities shift… Late at night, you’re just like, ‘OK, am I anyone’s number one priority?’ And that’s just the one thing that I wanted.
~Carl Nassib

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I see what I want of Love… I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place… I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk… and their need to say: Good Morning.
~Mahmoud Darwish

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Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.
~Perry Como

I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don’t really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn’t easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.
~Muhammad Ali

And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that’s when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.
~Lakshmi Pratury

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My mum raised three kids on her own on sweatshop wages of about six bucks an hour so there was a lot of late rent and landlords knocking on the door.
~Anh Do

During the late ’20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
~Vidal Sassoon

People shouldn’t be allowed to get married until it’s too late to have kids.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

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It’s never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child’s outcomes in adulthood.
~Gwen Ifill

Children are a plant substitute and we haven’t the wit to see it until too late
~Jill Tweedie

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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
~John Major

My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today’s America, we had a baby in later life.
~Alissa Quart

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married.
~Anna Kendrick

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I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.
~Monica Bellucci

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
~Candice Bergen

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You’re not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You’re going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.
~Paul Pierce

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I feel like when you’re in your late teens and early 20s, you just don’t think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.
~St Lucia

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

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.
~Jeffrey Kluger

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It’s always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they’re about eighteen years old. If you haven’t made your points with them by then, it’s too late.
~Betty Ford

I have a daughter from a relationship I had in my late teens or early 20s. Because I felt it wasn’t the kind of pukka behaviour my family or relatives would admit to, I denied it for many years.
~Steven Berkoff

It’s only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
~George Michael

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One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age ‒ at the age of 38 in fact he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
~Colin Firth

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father’s side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
~V S Naipaul

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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

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I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
~Jennifer Lopez

If it’s old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don’t know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don’t have a deadline. I don’t argue with them. That’s how I have been raised, and I’m happy with it.
~Tena Desae

No matter how early I get in—it’s too late.
~Jean Heather

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It’s never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he’s always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!
~Kenneth Grahame (Wind In The Willows)

It’s not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
~Morrie Schwartz

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Running a boat isn’t that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.
~Diane Wilson

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you’ve gotten some approval for them. Then it’s too late! Follow your gut. That’s hard to do, but the only way to be original.
~Abigail Disney

If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too late.
~Aaron Levie

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Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, “You don’t want me, you want the Virgin Mary.” It’s kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud’s opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society’s perception of the female psyche, too.
~Laura Marling

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In the late 1950s, the woman’s place in society was second-class.
~Annaleigh Ashford

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
~Patricia Ireland

We definitely need more women in politics. We don’t want women in their late teens or early twenties who are interested in politics to think they would never go into it.
~Liz Kendall

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
~Oscar Wilde

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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
~A N Wilson

It’s never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.
~Michelle Visage

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When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
~Bill Keane

When you’re doing late night you’re on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.
~Arsenio Hall

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many ‘different’ brands that really aren’t different at all.
~Tom Shales

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it’s faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up that stuff is very similar.
~Craig Ferguson

I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, ‘Who’s idea was it to go see him? And is it too late to ask for my money back?’
~Gilbert Gottfried

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
~Henny Youngman

I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it’s too late.
~Dana Gould

A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then, it’s too late.
~Frank Sinatra

In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.
~Tina Fey

She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, “Am I too late for the garbage?” “No, jump in!”
~Henny Youngman

I am in my late 40s now, so I wake up fatter than when I went to bed.
~John Bishop

I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late start without me.
~Tallulah Bankhead

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It’s too late. There’s something I must do. It shouldn’t have happened this way.
~Kim Novak

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

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
~Emil Cioran

No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.
~James Hetfield (Metallica)

It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.
~Robert Jordan

Years ago, this editor read that seven people had survived jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge, and that each and all had regretted jumping immediately after… too late.
~Ed Note

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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

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

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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
~Bertolt Brecht

There’s no such thing as ‘too late!’ That’s why they invented death!
~Walter Matthau

That’s the story of life ‒ when you start enjoying people, it’s always too late.
~Marjane Satrapi

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
~Thomas Carlyle

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
~Walter de La Mare

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We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth ‒ then it’s far too late when they pass away.
~George Harrison

Perhaps it’s only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it’s too late then for them to do anything about it.
~P D James

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The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
~Daniel Defoe

My late wife ‒ she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
~Stanley Tucci

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Mortality means you don’t have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you’re going to think: ‘I’ve left things a little late.’
~Mitch Albom

It’s terrible to realize you don’t learn how to live until you’re ready to die, and then it’s too late.
~Edna Ferber

I adore life but I don’t fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
~Georges Simenon

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It is never too late to learn.
~Malcolm Forbes

There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
~Mitch Albom

It is too late; now I wish I could live.
~Gen John Buford (Civil War)

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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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Road Nowhere
© David Lorenz Winston

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As a Woman:

I’m always late.
~Sade Adu

I’m always running late ‒ it’s my downfall.
~Michelle Keegan

I am invariably late for appointments ‒ sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
~Marilyn Monroe

The anxiety I feel when I’m late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I’m on time.
~Sade Adu

I’m always a bit late, but I don’t mind that, because it means that whoever I’m meeting is already there.
~Sarah Millican

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
~E V Lucas

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Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
~Mason Cooley

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
~J D Salinger

People say that I’m always late, but that’s a myth.
~Milla Jovovich

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As a Male:

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
~Chris Pine

The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class ‒ they made me pose for the yearbook with the tallest kid for comedic contrast.
~Alex Hirsch

I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.
~Rob Riggle

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it’s all been late.
~Mandy Patinkin

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I can’t stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That’s why I don’t rely on anyone to call me. That’s why I have clocks as well as people.
~Spike Milligan

I really admire the fact that whenever Marc Singer gets a call from someone running late, he says he’s running late, too. I don’t admit that even when it’s true. Small, unnoticeable acts of generosity are sometimes the most impressive.
~Glenn Kelman

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I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.
~Jon Hopkins

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
~Jonathan Swift

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I stay up late; I’m like a vampire. I stay up until, like, 6 A.M. and then sleep till 4 P.M. I lay in bed till it’s dark, and then I come alive in the night.
~Jacob Whitesides (singer)

Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. If there were werewolves around, I’d be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am.
~Dean Ambrose (wrestler)

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.
~Jim Carrey

The writer works late who wants a front row seat with a back-wall view of the world.
~author unknown

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I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it’s not important. I have an exciting existence, and there’s so much to do.
~Martha Stewart

I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It’s a serious issue! I’ve been very late for some serious gigs because of it!
~Jesse McCartney

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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

If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don’t want to be late.
~Daniel Handler

It’s never too late to start heading in the right direction.
~Seth Godin

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.
~Denzel Washington

When a hunger pain happens, that’s your bodies way of saying it’s too late, you’re a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.
~Jackie Warner

It’s never too late to get good at something.
~Guy Fieri

There’s no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
~Charles Kingsley

It is never too late to show true character.
~Bill Courtney

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere… As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
~Maya Angelou

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.
~Learned Hand

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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 (music)

I think it’s too late for prayin, hold up, a voice spoke to me and it slowly started sayin’ ‘Bring your lifestyle to me I’ll make it better. I’ll make your life better than you can imagine or even dreamed of.’ I see demons. So relax your soul let me take control. You go down with the devil. Now roam through the depths of hell, where the rest your homeboys dwell.
~Snoop Dogg (music)

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it’s too late.
~Jo Brand (comedian)

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I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, ‘Why don’t you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?’
~Mads Mikkelsen

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

I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late ‒ when I was 21 or 22 was the first time I ever touched a musical instrument. For me, it was always this fun side hobby.
~Tycho

I got into theatre kinda late by some standards, and I sorta fell into it. I had broken my ankle playing football, and my high school was doing a production of ‘Barnum.’ I could juggle, and my mom really wanted to get me out of the house. She said since I wasn’t playing football and couldn’t wrestle, maybe I should audition for the show.
~Colin Donnell

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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I’d never be an astronaut.
~Mark Haddon (author)

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
~Neil Armstrong (1st man to walk the moon, 1969))

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@Writers Platform:

In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world…It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader’s. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.
~Ian Mcewan

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I don’t really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it’s completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it’s too late to change my career path.
~Emily Haines

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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I’m terrified of writing at night, for then I can’t sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
~Italo Calvino

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there’s more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn’t prime time for me.
~Stephen King

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
~Robert Caro

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
~Charles Lamb (poet)

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There’s that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don’t know what that character’s going to do, but we’ll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you’ve got to put some plot in before it’s too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I’ve left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.
~Terry Pratchett

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Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I’ll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it’s OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
~Ashwin Sanghi

I’ve been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I see that I’m not happy with ‒ well, it’s almost as if being a poet is not enough for me. It’s too late for me to do more now. I did what I could in a small way. I did it as theater, too, to be honest.
~Gerald Stern

There’s a part of me that wishes I’d never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there’s so much mileage in that. But it’s too late to stop now.
~Richard Thompson

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*X I love painting and music, of course. I don’t know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I’ve certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn’t read it until I was in my late 20s.
~Kenneth Koch

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
~George Saintsbury

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It’s never too late ‒ in fiction or in life ‒ to revise… It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.
~Nancy Thayer

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Being an author is fun. It’s a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.
~Dav Pilkey

Feeling I’d scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I’m near the end of it. I’m not quite sure what Late Style means except that it’s some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.
~Alan Bennet

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I have only now, too late perhaps, found out how all art requires solitude as its companion.
~Oscar Wilde

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.
~Pearl Cleage

Solitude stands by the wind
She turns her head as I walk in the room
I can see by her eyes she’s been waiting
Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
~Suzanne Vega

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it’s too late and there’s nothing worse than too late
~Charles Bukowski

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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
~John Updike

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I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.
~Jonathan Franzen

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain’t about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it’s hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I’m trying to act like it ain’t real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don’t know how to feel.
~LeCrae

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider’s web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
~Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

When you’re young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it’s already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
~Haruki Murakami

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
~Berkeley Breathed

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My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.
~Howard Schultz (CEO)

I became conflicted in my late teens.
~Daniel Day-Lewis (actor)

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn’t really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
~Damon Hill (motor sports)

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
~Danielle Steel (writer)

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
~Paulo Coelho (writer)

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I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, ‘Hell, is it too late?’
~Ronnie Wood

Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
~Benjamin Franklin

We should live and learn; but by the time we’ve learned, it’s too late to live.
~Carolyn Wells

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It is never too late to be wise.
~Daniel Defoe

You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it’s own secret
~Rainer Maria Rilke

It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
~W Somerset Maugham

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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
~Alexander Pope

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

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Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life ‒ into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.
~Tim O’Brien

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1’s ‘I Love the ’80s‘ gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
~Ernest Cline

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
~Thomas Hardy

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Late Bloomers: The Hidden Strengths of Learning and Succeeding at Your Own Pace.
~Rich Karlgaard

I’m a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
~Gabriel Mann

I’ve always been a late bloomer, so I never feel like, ‘Oh, I’m gettin’ older; I guess everything is gonna stop.’ I’m the opposite: ‘Oh, I’m just getting started.’
~Megan Mullally

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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
~Bill Vaughan

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
~Ben Folds

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

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How did it get so late so soon?
Its night before its afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr Seuss

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Prewritten Prompt: late

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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Aung San Suu Kyi’s late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony’s, Oxford. The gentlest of gentle academics, he helped establish a centre in Tibetan studies at Oxford and converted to Buddhism.
~Alistair Horne

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Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.
~Clive Barker

It’s too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
~Robin Hobb

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It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
~Henry David Thoreau

When I learned that there was such a thing as an atheist, I looked it up ‒ and found out that the definition fitted me to a tee. Finally, at the age of 24, I found out who and what I was. Better late than never.
~Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
~Peter Porter

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Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper’s door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.
~Max Lucado

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.
~Frederick Lenz

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.
~Byron Katie

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.
~John Lubbock

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If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
~Hunter S Thompson

Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.
~Ernest Bramah

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.
~Anne Bradstreet

It’s the Devil’s way now,
There is no way out,
You can scream and you can shout,
It is too late now.
~Thom Yorke

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Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves.
~Walter Hilton

If you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven’t made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them, repent and repair them. It is never too late so long as the Master of the vineyard says there is time… Don’t delay. It’s getting late.
~Jeffrey R Holland

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Personally, I hate flossing. So this is the first discipline I quit when I am stressed. But if I stop this one important habit, then I might be tempted to cheat on my eating plan, stay up too late, or skip my Bible reading. If I stay faithful in doing something that I don’t enjoy, I tend to believe that I’m disciplined. Therefore, I eat better, go to bed on time, and stay in God’s Word.
~Craig Groeschel

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.
~Tito Colliander (Way of the Ascetics)

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There is no such word as ‘too late,’ in the wide world — nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity — shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life’s ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, ‘It is too late!’
~Dinah Craik

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, “It is too late for me.” Never too late! Never too old! How old are you–thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.
~Lyman Abbott

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact ‒ men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
~Billy Graham

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
~Abigail Adams

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In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

And what I don’t understand I grasp it only when it’s too late.
~Mahmoud Darwish

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There are storms in your own life: storms of temptation, confusion, and difficulty. An uneasy conscience says,’ Stop before it is too late… When we are called before God and His throne of judgement, it will be too late to reverse our decision. It is during our lifetime here on earth that we decide our eternal destiny.
~Billy Graham

There is no judgment day, no judging of you, only the consequence of your actions to meet. It is already too late to undo the unkindness that maintains in your book of life, in the look of your eyes, your mirrors owning you.
~author unknown

Conscience … seldom comes to a man’s aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
~George Washington

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth ‒ then it’s far too late when they pass away.
~George Harrison

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
~Thomas Hobbes

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There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.
~Rodney Stark

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
~Pearl S Buck

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Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you ‒ and behold you were with me all the time . . .
~Saint Augustine

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~Douglas Adams

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The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.
~Stephen King

Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It’s late afternoon ‒ the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.
~Jean Webster

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
~Andy Goldsworthy

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.
~Jack Kornfield

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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
~Minor White

Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.
~Peter Lik

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This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.
~Susan Hill

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it’s too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it’s too late.
~Henry Mitchell

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
~Kurt Vonnegut

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.
~William F Longgood

Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.
~Sue Hubbell

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I’m so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind.
~Dave Pelzer

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.
~Rick Yancey

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The world is too much with us;
late and soon, getting and spending,
we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours.
~William Wordsworth

Before it’s too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive ‘yes’ to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.
~Pope Benedict XVI

I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.
~Barack Obama

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it’s not too late
~Christine Lagarde

It is not too late to turn things around.
~Sylvia Earle (marine biologist)

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
~Pliny the Elder

It is never too late to begin rebuilding,
Though all into ruins your life seems hurled;
For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding
The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The scientific content of Genesis 1-11 holds special significance for me because it revolutionized my thinking and, thus, changed my life’s direction. Until I reached my late teens, my singular passion was science, astronomy in particular. My life’s purpose was to learn more about the universe; nothing beyond that really interested me.
~Hugh Ross

In the late ’60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.
~Chris Hadfield (astronaut)

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Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
~Leon Kassett

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
~Donald Johanson

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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time‒but it is too late to go back.
~Eli Whitney (cotton gin)

Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything’s changed. That’s a very appealing picture; however, it’s just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.
~Nguyen Quyen

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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
~Iain McGilchrist

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
~Thomas Malthus

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Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn’t. Today, it’s probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say ‒ shift happens.
~Marc Andreessen

Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It’s really hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We’ll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.
~Denis Hayes

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A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late ’60s.
~Alan Moore

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.
~Sarah Jeong

I didn’t own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
~Vince Vaughn

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

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Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.
~Troye Sivan

The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking lot late at night, your entire sense of danger would be heightened. You would stand straight. You’d walk quickly. You’d know where you were going. You would look for light.
~James Comey

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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
~Fred Brooks

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
~Seymour Cray

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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
~Steve Jobs

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§ The Exercise:

this just in for just us

all to play
some to win
some to stray
some to try again
some off to worlds away
return with tales of heroic sin
some voting verdicts out of date
some to rue the knowledge gained
some to prey on those who pray another way
sacred hatred selling well, hellish spell and gospel

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polly ticks #24

weighted with fear and voting for right
practicing hatred as tho fighting for life
willing for killing on the patriot side
feigning and fawning and pretending delight
too late in learning love as formerly scribed

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5s ‘n 7s

inhabit too-elaborate
from inhibit to excite
hard exhibit to exit
auctioning trite, option lite
work of life to make it right
blend of timing and rhyming
poetry, sound become sight

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fresh flesh, johnny-come-lately
new-on-the-scene has been seen
bigger’n life cinema screen
nude and naked, prude-obscene
acting king a closet queen

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still the late bloomer
late for dates always
late in life, ever
late to fate, even
but on time for now

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too soon for healing
but not for kindness
too late for sorry
forgive my blindness
no cause for worry
tho death be endless
we lived a story

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off-course correction
fake redirection
regret selection
stall’d insurrection
of-course prediction
late, the future builds
lasting erections

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you come late to the station
ominous omen at start
companions as convenience
riding together apart
fatal arrow to the heart

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some, quick with a hug
some, to hold for a moment
late in letting go
passed off as common comment
some to linger in the glow

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sappy or crappy
never late to gratitude
keyhole to happy

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

There’s a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you’re a little ahead of your time, you’re an eccentric, and if you’re too late, you’re a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you’re a genius.
~Thomas Watson, Jr

A renowned genius once asked a student, “What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?” He answered, “You are watching the sunset.” The genius responded, “That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.”
~Jeremy Kagan

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If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
~Reid Hoffman

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

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Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.
~Dagmar Godowsky

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
~Mikhail Gorbachev

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Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.
~James Alexander Thom

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
~Mark Twain

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Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
~Franz Werfel

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
~William Shakespeare

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It’s never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.
~Robert Kurson

It’s never too late to try authenticity.
~Miranda Devine

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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
~Max Lerner

On a perfect weekend, I’ll stay in bed until I am rested, though I am not someone who sleeps late. Then I’ll go for a run through the parks nearby, even if it is frosty and cold, and I love meeting friends for brunch. You know you are truly on a day off if you have time to do brunch.
~Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

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If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing late.
~Frederick Oliver

If you’re there before it’s over, you’re on time.
~Jimmy Walker

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I’ve been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, ‘You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!’ And I use the wrong exit, and I’m running down the red carpet in ‒pyjamas, like, ‘No! Don’t look at me!’
~Florence Welch

It’s never too late to act on your dream.
~Bruce Wilkinson

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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you’re a member until it’s too late to get out.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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I wish I’d known early what I had to learn late.
~Richie Ashburn

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
~Bikram Choudhury

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I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he’d shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
~Mariel Hemingway

I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
~Chloe Zhao

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The Middle Ages hangs over history’s belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.
~Tom Robbins

I’d rather be late for supper in this world tonight than be in some other world on time for breakfast in the morning.
~Irvin S Cobb

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My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you’re terrified of, you bring it about ‒ and even worse.
~Marco Roth

…life is in Fate’s hands now. You made your choice to stay… it’s too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it…. You’re making my scales itch.
~Christopher Paolini (Saphira, from Eragon)

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We should live and learn; but by the time we’ve learned, it’s too late to live.
~Carolyn Wells

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.
~George Washington

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No. I just don’t want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it’s too late. I want to prevent it from happening.
~Jennifer Echols

Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that’s been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.
~Lemmy Kilmister

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So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it’s mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
~Polly Toynbee

It is better to learn late than never.
~Publilius Syrus

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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 (sci-fi)

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
~Olympia Snowe (true)

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When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
~George Iles

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
~Felix Frankfurter

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I’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
~Ron White

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
~Ogden Nash

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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel ‒ nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
~Dorothy Gilman

Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late.
~Michael Bassey Johnson

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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
~Amy Tan

It is cruel to discover one’s mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
~W Somerset Maugham

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I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening ‒ or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!
~Steve Martin

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
~Robert Breault

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Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
~Henri Rousseau

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
~George Carlin

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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
~Og Mandino

Better late than too late.
~English Proverb

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Tomorrow I’ll reform, the fool does say;
Today itself’s too late; —the wise did yesterday.
~Benjamin Franklin

My wisdom came too late.
~Tillie Olsen

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I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
~Marlene Dumas (artist)

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

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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
~Arnold Bennett

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
~Robert Frost

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Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.
~Ernest Bramah

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You’ll be mad, but it will be too late.
~Mitch Hedberg

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You won’t know whether you paid too much for it until it is too late.
~Warren Buffett

It is better to learn late than never.
~Publilius Syrus

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We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you have the time, and the security, you might not want to do it. You’re in a race against your own enthusiasm. Don’t put it off because someone told you it’s never too late. That’s the worst lie. It’s never too late today, but it’s often too late tomorrow.
~Stephen Elliott

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People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters.
~John C Maxwell

It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
~Barbara Sher

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

I’ve never really learned how to live and I’ve discovered too late that life is for living.
~John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

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For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
~F Scott Fitzgerald/Eric Roth

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It is never too late to be what you might have been…
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be
~George Eliot

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