Top 100 Quotes About Late
#1. You still love him."
"I love the boy he was. I could love the man, too. I don't know, and that's why I have to find out."
"Oh, Aimee," she said sadly, pulling me into a tight hug. "Please be careful."
"Too late," I whispered.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#2. There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.
Bill Watterson
#3. Sunshine of late afternoon
On the glass tray
a glass pitcher, the tumbler
turned down, by which
a key is lying
And the
immaculate white bed
William Carlos Williams
#4. Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. Perhaps we will end up one of those sad childless couples who spend all their time sleeping late, buying luxury goods, traveling the world, and enjoying each other's company. That would be terrible.
Michael Ian Black
#6. 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
#7. Never in our history have we been headed at such breakneck speed toward our own financial, political and cultural destruction. One can only pray that before it's too late, enough Democrats will come to their senses and help get this freight train under control.
David Limbaugh
#8. I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately distributed, and late followers learn from the reactions and dilemmas of those who had initially encountered the disruptive change.
Jamais Cascio
#9. Kenny, in his late fifties, noticed that senior citizens get free coffee at a local cafe. He asked, "How old do you have to be to be a senior citizen?" The waiter looked at him for a few seconds and without saying a word, poured him a cup of coffee.
Ed Fischer
#10. As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.
Gary Johnson
#11. And think about things, I do: late that night. All through school the next day, wandering to classes, unaware of my surroundings.
Teri Terry
#12. I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.
Natalie Imbruglia
#13. Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late
the beyed has flown.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#14. God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
R.T. Kendall
#15. So many places I've never been to ... I have a whole world to experience before it's too late, and I'm keeping a journal of it all as I go, so I'll be able to enjoy the world all over again when I get back.
Terry Pratchett
#16. Jes, I've thought about this-"
"Thought of me? Late at night? What was I wearing?"
"I've thought about your powers," Wylan said, cheeks flushing pinker.
Leigh Bardugo
#17. By that point, it'll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it's too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital.
But even so, I've kept looking.
I'm still looking.
Gayle Forman
#18. The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.
Andrew Greeley
#19. Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
Ma Jian
#20. Your voice, an evening
in late June, ice losing
its edges in a jar of tea.
Warren Heiti
#21. 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
#22. It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.
R.S. Thomas
#23. I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.
Jennifer Ehle
#24. 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
#25. It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
Rick Pitino
#26. My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten."
"Tell him to take out the goalie.
Charles M. Schulz
#27. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.
John Niven
#28. May, notwithstanding, be questioned whether, except his bible, he ever read a book entirely through. Late in life, if any man praised a book in his presence, he was sure to ask, "Did you read it through?" If the answer was in the affirmative, he did not seem willing to believe it.
Samuel Johnson
#29. Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.
Dave Barry
#30. I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.
Walt Shiel
#32. We're halfway through another great time of the year. You should start to make little improvements to your lifestyle and thinking, your late. Start making a change now.
Auliq Ice
#33. I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
Rory Bremner
#34. If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.
Jean Giraudoux
#35. After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53).
Quentin R. Bufogle
#36. I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
E.P. Thompson
#37. I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.
Bee Wilson
#38. Exercise must become a regular part of your day or personal effectiveness system. Do not wait to start exercising because you want to lose weight or because the doctor has given you some scary update on your health. Exercise to keep fit and stay healthy. It's not too late to start now.
Archibald Marwizi
#39. 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
#40. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.
Georgette Heyer
#41. Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
Sam Kean
#42. When he left for his date, he was late
Tijan
#43. Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
Jill Lepore
#44. Riding back from the grocery store, I realized my father was two men - one he presented to the outside world, and one, far darker, that was always there, behind the face everybody else saw. In my bedroom late that
Augusten Burroughs
#45. When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.
Bruce Hornsby
#46. Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late
Amy Reed
#47. I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
Veronica Webb
#48. 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
#49. Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone
John Updike
#50. Most great figures in world history are remembered for their compassion. [Martin Luther] King shared this trait with the Ghandis, Mother Teresas, and Mandelas of the world. He also shared this trait with the late Stanley Tookie Williams.
Renford Reese
#51. If there is already a market research report out there with all the information you need, it is probably too late for your new venture.
Bill Aulet
#52. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.
Peter Heller
#53. Do you happen to have a pocket mirror?
"I'm afraid not. Why?"
"I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly.
Lisa Kleypas
#54. 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
#56. The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.
Charles R. Morris
#57. A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
Ansel Elgort
#58. You're late."
"And you're fucking gorgeous.
Tessa Bailey
#59. We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
Angeles Mastretta
#60. 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
#61. Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
Harry Shearer
#62. Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead
Henry Jenkins
#63. The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.
Paul Tagliabue
#64. Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.
Zoey Dean
#65. Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me," Abby said. "Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I'm always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I'm sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.
Nora Sakavic
#66. I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands ...
Hal Blaine
#67. There's a lunar eclipse late Friday." Alisha said. "I hope everybody has their emotional body armor ready. Things are about to get intense.
Lee Fishman
#68. David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.
David Bowie
#69. My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
Joshua Ferris
#70. I love the Beatles. Now I know I'm a good few decades late on this one, but I've always been behind the curve.
Alfred Enoch
#71. It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.
Piet Hein
#72. Because late night, when I made you mine - "
"Shush. You didn't!"
"All right. Last night when you made me yours - "
She definitely heard Pom snort.
Christina Dodd
#73. There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.
Thomas Pynchon
#74. As the proverb said, "Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night." Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating.
Orson Scott Card
#75. God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early ... but he's also never late, either.
Anne Jackson
#76. Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.
Wong Kar-Wai
#77. I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving.
Angel Cabrera
#78. 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
#79. Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.
Kieron Gillen
#80. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.
Marcus Aurelius
#81. 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
#82. Late afternoon he pulls up outside a white painted Baptist church with a wooden cross on the front wall above a sign that reads, JESUS DOESN'T NEED TO TWEET. pg 138
Michael Robotham
#83. Your sixteen days to late you son of a bitch- Travis, Whatchers
Dean Koontz
#84. Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.
Jodi Picoult
#85. I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.
Russ Feingold
#87. The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.
Michael Rapaport
#88. 2 and 2 are 4.
4 and 4 are 8.
But what would happen
If the last 4 was late?
And how would it be
If one 2 was me?
Or if the first 4 was you
Divided by 2?
Langston Hughes
#89. Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.
Brendan I. Koerner
#90. I quote the late Ed Murow ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.
Dan Rather
#91. A mouse when caught in a perilous situation reacts aptly because it has such encounters on a daily basis whereas a lion, which is rarely caught in such situations, is often late in its reaction.
Ashish Jaiswal
#92. Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That's all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world's wisdom is not contained in books.
Sherman Alexie
#93. 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
#94. When it's right it's never too late, when it's wrong it's always too soon
Sara Donati
#95. Was prepared for one baby. I don't know if I can handle two." "It's a little late for that. There's a very strict no-return policy on babies.
Molly Harper
#96. There are storms in your own life: storms of
temptation, confusion, and difficulty ... An uneasy conscience says, Stop before it is too late!
Billy Graham
#97. As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.
Laura Lippman
#98. [...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.
James Frey
#99. What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.
John W. Dower
#100. We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
Cyril Connolly
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