Too Late Quotes - Page 9

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

It is not too late to take another path.

Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

I have come too late into a world too old.

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

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

It's never too late to fall in love.

It was never too late to undo who you had become.

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.

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

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

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.

Life punishes those who come too late.

I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

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.

Hell itself is truth known too late

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.

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.

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

They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.

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.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.