Belatedly Quotes

#1. Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

Gloria Steinem

#2. Belatedly, Clary recalled something. "I thought you guys said only some of the vampire bikes could fly?" ... [Jace:]"Only some of them can!" "How did you know this was one of them?" "I didn't!" he shouted gleefully ...

Cassandra Clare

#3. Not before night approaches can we savor how miraculous the day, and the blossoms we gather belatedly, have been.

Christopher S. Wren

#4. I thought I had one of your father, but it didn't develop." Tremaine nodded ruefully. "It's the silver nitrate in the film stock. He doesn't show up on it." Giaren stared at her blankly. "That was a joke," she added belatedly. "Oh." He sounded relieved.

Martha Wells

#5. I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

Arianna Huffington

#6. Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Jeff Daniels

#7. He pulls up outside my duplex. I belatedly realize he's not asked me where I live - yet he knows. But then he sent the books, of course he knows where I live. What able, cell-phone-tracking, helicopter owning, stalker wouldn't.

E.L. James

#8. Belatedly, I notice how much easier it is to walk on these sticks when you can't feel your legs. Lesson number one for hooch wear, be drunk. It might make dancing more of a challenge, but I wasn't feeling a thing and it was beautiful.

Harper Sloan

#9. Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk. Who else but Valek could win a fight against four large men when armed only with a beer mug?

Maria V. Snyder

#10. I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

Jan Egeland

#11. I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and it took me a very long time to figure that out because I never thought that way.

Cynthia Ozick

#12. Now to die of grief
would mean, I'm afraid, to die
belatedly, while latecomers
are unwelcome, particularly in the future ...

Joseph Brodsky

#13. Do you have any idea how late it is? Go to sleep," she scolded as she hurried past him.
"I know, I'm going to bed right now ... Hey! YOU go to sleep," Jerry scolded back, belatedly remembering that he was the parent.

Josephine Angelini

#14. To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Giles Foden

#15. What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

Diane Duane

#16. We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

Peter Bart

#17. I never heard of a pretty librarian in my life, Paula declared.

Pamela Morsi

#18. For every question, there is an answer.
Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.

Richard Diaz

#19. All I want is a best friend whom I can't wait to kiss again.

Robin Palmer

#20. Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Charles Spurgeon

#21. The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians
and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

H.L. Mencken

#22. We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#23. There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we do to survive. It's the remembering part that's hard. Some people remember and some never have to. The blessed and the cursed.

Nicole A. Seitz

#24. McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.

George Carlin