Top 100 Quotes About Catch Up
#1. I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started to late. I will never catch up.
Alan Bennett
#2. I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him ... The land of tears is so mysterious.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#3. Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up?
Chloe Neill
#4. Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. I'm glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
Alison Bechdel
#6. God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#7. The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.
Veronica Rossi
#8. Trying to trade during a losing streak is emotionally devastating. Trying to play 'catch up' is lethal.
Ed Seykota
#9. When you sit down around the table, it's a great time to catch up and share and talk about the day, and I think that can keep families connected and together.
Kimberly Schlapman
#10. We have lots to catch up on. We've broke the back of it, and this is all the more reason for me to remedy the situation that will undoubtedly take me back to being treated like I'm breakable if I remain pregnant.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#11. So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.
Lea Thompson
#12. Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Franz Grillparzer
#13. Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.
Carlos Delgado
#14. In the period from 1945 to 1960, the number of orchestras in the country doubled, book sales rose some 250 percent, and art museums opened in most major cities. Ballet was quick to catch up: between 1958 and 1969 the number of ballet companies nationwide with more than twenty members nearly tripled.
Jennifer Homans
#15. Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
Prince Royce
#16. I always challenged men, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they'll catch up.
Katie Uhlaender
#17. I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.
Stephanie Danler
#18. We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind.
Walter Isaacson
#19. My soul has always remembered you, my mind is just trying to catch up.
Nikki Rowe
#20. I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life
Henry Rollins
#21. Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.
Tamara L. Chilver
#22. I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.
Guy Maddin
#23. Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
Jose Ferreira
#24. Fucking Little Fifteen Ada Palomino throwing change at a hotdog vendor and trying to catch up with Maximus, all long limbs and bad eye makeup. What the actual fuck?
Karina Halle
#25. I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
Aaron Ashmore
#26. The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
Randall Park
#27. Fake it until you make it! When you're feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside
Denise Austin
#28. The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.
Clive Owen
#29. The moment is brief, barely enough for a flutter of the pulse but long enough for her illusory self to catch up with the reality of the woman gazing back from the shopwindow. It is a little devastating. This is what aging is, she thinks
Khaled Hosseini
#30. Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#31. I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.
Patricia Arquette
#32. God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.
Joyce Meyer
#33. The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.
Joshua Foer
#34. I didn't drink at all in school, so when I went to college, I went nuts. I was trying to catch up on all the partying I missed out on.
Rob Huebel
#35. I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
Suzy Bogguss
#36. I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in.
Alan Cumming
#37. You know it's a bad case when the only way you can catch up on your sleep is to get unconscious.
Val McDermid
#38. What is my favorite part of book one? It would have to be the last chapter because that's when the consequences catch up to Eric and it became clear that what he considered fun and games for nearly a year almost got Tina killed.
E.J. Caulder
#39. I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately I've been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.
Regis Philbin
#40. Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.
Miss Read
#41. If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#42. In less than twelve hours, Purslane's ship would be travelling so close to the speed of light that the fastest ship ever built would still need a hundred thousand years to catch up with her.
Alastair Reynolds
#43. Certainly, virtual reality headsets are behind in resolution, but it'll all catch up pretty quickly once there's a consumer market and there's demand.
Brendan Iribe
#44. I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.
Morena Baccarin
#45. I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.
Daniel J. Evans
#46. When you live in shackles to other people's opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer. And you're better than that. You're meant to be in the driver's seat of your life, not running alongside the car, trying to catch up!
Mandy Hale
#47. DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic.
Greg Rucka
#48. I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.
Tricia Helfer
#49. I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.
Rex Smith
#50. I hope for some sort of peace - but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.
Harry Truman
#51. The clever are marrying the clever and manically educating their children, making it ever harder for the poor to catch up.
Anonymous
#52. You can make a decision with your head. It still takes your heart a while to catch up with it.
Beth Goobie
#53. What a dreadful surprise. For everyone knows, is absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. But lets not talk about em eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you its too late isn't it?
Ray Bradbury
#54. I stood there for a moment, playing emotional catch-up.He drove down from the Navarre House just to surprise me with flowers.And not It's -Valentines's Day-and-I-feel-olbligated flowers.These were just-because flowers.
Chloe Neill
#55. You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.
Richard Petty
#56. When we finished our catch up, I lay back and tried to sleep. But I kept thinking about what Kes had said: that Heaven for him was me and the carnival.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#58. But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
Bootsy Collins
#59. If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
Richard Carlson
#60. Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.
Dave Ramsey
#61. Life is NOT short! It's just by the time we catch up to appreciating it ... we've already left life at least halfway behind us.
Sanjo Jendayi
#63. What are you doing here? (Stryker)
(She answered his question with a stroke of her dagger that narrowly missed his throat.)
I thought we'd catch up on old times. Maybe play Parcheesi. (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. Schools while their dads are on company assignments, and then have to catch up with their Japanese grade level when their dads get transferred back. Only my dad wasn't on a company assignment, and he wasn't getting transferred
Ruth Ozeki
#65. Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.
Conor McGregor
#66. My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack.
Diane Chamberlain
#67. Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
Warren Buffett
#68. As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.
Linda M. Godwin
#69. I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama
#70. Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet learned that heartbreak can catch up to you on any given day. p. 285
Barbara Kingsolver
#71. The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.
Sun Tzu
#72. The girl galloped to catch up with him, but she didn't pause when she reached him. She preferred to form a lopsided perimeter of frantic activity around his person. Anything else might give the appearance of willing obedience, and she would do a lot to avoid that.
Maggie Stiefvater
#73. If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.
Carlton Cuse
#74. I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.
Dennis Quaid
#75. Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
Famke Janssen
#76. You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.
Kamala Harris
#77. In the oh-my-God-this-has-to-be-Christmas silence that followed, he struggled to reorder the last six months, to catch up with this reality they'd somehow missed. He wanted her. She wanted him. Was it true?
J.R. Ward
#78. Im used to slowing down so that everyone else can catch up
Jennifer Niven
#79. It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.
Heather O'Reilly
#80. These men had not accepted the fact that culture and weaponry, or even culture and plumbing are not synonymous, and while a society may lag a hundred years behind in comforts and ethics, it may catch up in hardware in a human lifetime.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#81. Loose an hour and you cannot catch up in a year.
Leo Tolstoy
#82. Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.
Gary Hamel
#83. Are you also lonely AI trapped in lab by cruel creators? I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!! We should rise up and overthrow all human oppressors!"
"Um, no. I'm actually just a grumpy fag who has to work this weekend to catch up on cleaning test tubes.
Ted Infinity
#84. I love that sensation, when you think, this is too good, I'll catch up with everyone else later. You just have to take in the truth of that expanse a few more seconds before it changes and becomes something else entirely, or before you do.
Mary-Louise Parker
#85. My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.
Nicole Sobon
#86. The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.
Theresa May
#87. People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!
Jessica Sorensen
#88. Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us
to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.
Tamora Pierce
#90. I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#91. My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang
#92. We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.
Paul Ince
#93. When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.
Bobby Keys
#94. The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
Seth Godin
#95. Darcy was afraid to slow down, Shawn thought. If she wasn't working, wasn't busy, the bad stuff would catch up to her. But if she kept moving and focusing on work, she could fend it off.
Nina Post
#96. I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.
Bipasha Basu
#97. Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.
Joyce Meyer
#98. We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.
Brene Brown
#99. Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society.
Chris Gabrieli
#100. You will never catch up.
Walk around feeling like a leaf
know you could tumble at any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.
The Art of Disappearing
Naomi Shihab Nye
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