It Will Be Too Late Quotes

#1. Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

Donalyn Miller

#2. If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

Margaret Mead

#3. You have all heard the warnings about the edge. We have been told its winds are a song that will hypnotize us, and by the time we awaken from that trance, it will be too late.

Lauren DeStefano

#4. At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

Sun Tzu

#5. Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#7. The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation ... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Billy Graham

#8. When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

Faina Ranevskaya

#9. The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gate Or when it's dark, It comes for you Then it will be too late The

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#10. You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#11. 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

#12. This is still the age of grace. God's offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the door will one day be closed. Someday it will be too late. This is why the Bible continually warns and challenges: "Now is the accepted time" [2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV].

Billy Graham

#13. 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

#14. I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person, which I don't think I will, because I am too fussy - my biological clock means that it will be too late.

Julia Sawalha

#15. People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#16. 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

#17. And then one day you will look for you in the mirror and you'll no longer be able to identify yourself - you'll only see everyone else. You'll know that you did what they wanted you to do. You will have assimilated. And you will hate yourself for it, because it will be too late.

Matthew Quick

#18. When we are called before God and His throne of judgment, 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

#19. 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

#20. I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!

Wernher Von Braun

#21. Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

Eraldo Banovac

#22. Laugh soon because you never know how soon it will be too late

Thomas F. Shubnell

#23. From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

Joyce Carol Oates

#24. They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be ... too late.

Alan Moore

#25. And if you find someone to make you feel that way, you need to hold on to it. Because if you don't, someone else will. Or it may be too late when you finally realize it.

R.D. Cole

#26. I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.

Elaine Miller

#27. A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Lemony Snicket

#28. A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

Michael Eisner

#29. The planet Earth is not in danger. She has millions of years to recover. It is the human species that, by degrading the ecosystem, is putting itself at risk. Nothing will be done to stem present developments, and it is already too late. The prognosis is negative.

Guillaume Faye

#30. Today you will have countless opportunities to take action towards any dream or goal you've ever had. No matter how long you've waited, it's never too late. Let today be the day you give life to your dreams and goals. Don't throw away another day!

Steve Maraboli

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

Lemony Snicket

#32. I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!

Jerry Falwell

#33. The resurrection tells us it is never too late. Every so often we will be surprised. We must believe that the stone will be rolled back, and we must be ready to poke out our timid heads, take off the linen bindings of death, and walk free for a time, breathing resurrection air.

Ronald Rolheiser

#34. When my death us do part
Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again,
Or will it be, as always was, too late?

Louise Penny

#35. I don't think it will ever be too late for her, that she still holds out hope that one day he'll see what he left for never replaced what he gave up.

Courtney Giardina

#36. Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

Sam Altman

#37. If you don't take your stand for Christ, you will be on the wrong side, and someday when it is too late, you'll cry out, "I've taken the wrong stand!" You'll be in the devil's trap! You can't lick the devil.

Billy Graham

#38. A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them. Look at her own daughters. Keffria, who only wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Althea, who only desired that she do her own will always."
p. 429

Robin Hobb

#39. The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

Helen Keller

#40. It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#41. If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

E. O. Wilson

#42. The day he is out of baseball will be the day he starts to think about what comes next. By then, it may be too late.

Jim Bouton

#43. It is never too early and never too late to try your best. What you like or what you love will be a great success.

Debasish Mridha

#44. The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

Paula Fox

#45. Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never ...

Elvis Presley

#46. And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.

Amy Bloom

#47. If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Rumi

#48. 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

#49. If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Clayton M Christensen

#50. Battles can alter history. He did not sound pleased with it. The trouble is, sometimes you cannot say how history will be changed until it is too late.

Robert Jordan

#51. If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone.

Nelson Mandela

#52. You always think there will be more time and then suddenly there isn't. You know how it is. You have to leave before the rains come, or it's too late.

Alexandra Fuller

#53. I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

Ed Asner

#54. The fear he'd dared not voice until now - when it was all but too late - because when stacked alongside the survival of humanity his fears mustn't matter. "Will you be the same person when you wake up?

G.S. Jennsen

#55. Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.

J. Michael Straczynski