Top 100 Quotes About Too Early
#1. I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.
Tom Courtenay
#2. Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early
almost before you're half-acquainted with life
you meet the other.
Tennessee Williams
#3. Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid," Samwer said. "And that healed us. Since then, we basically say, Fuck you. We don't care whether you think we are not smart enough to invent something.
Frank Sennett
#4. Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
Franz Werfel
#5. There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.
Nils John Nilsson
#6. In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.
Sinead O'Connor
#7. Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones)
Steven Levy
#8. It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.
Soleil Moon Frye
#10. When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.
Arlen Specter
#11. The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.
Aaron Peirsol
#12. So this little boy was
I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but it left me with a little too much knowledge at an early age. [p. 143]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#13. It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.
James Madison
#15. Jesus Christ. It is way too early to talk about dick sizes and which way they curve.". . ."But for the record, he's massive and as straight as you pretended to be in high school.
Jessica Daniels
#16. This is the kind of thing that you wonder about when you make things up for a living. I remain unconvinced that it is the kind of activity that is a fit occupation for an adult, but it's too late now: I seem to have a career that I enjoy which doesn't involve getting up too early in the morning.
Neil Gaiman
#17. For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
Alexa Von Tobel
#18. It's never too early to think about your legacy," she would say. "Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?
Ben Tanzer
#20. Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
Seth Godin
#22. She lies there, deflating like a stuck balloon because she knew there would be pain and sometimes, as she's learning so quickly and much too early, we are alone with it. Despite Moms and Dads and all the others who might be hovering nearby, in the end we are alone with it.
P. Carey Reid
#23. I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early
Amanda Foreman
#24. A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.
Christy Mathewson
#25. Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
Jeb Bush
#26. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
#27. But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
Sarah Dessen
#28. I've had a lot of friends in the business that got out earlier than normal. They tell me they got out too early and that I should make sure I've got all I want before I step aside. When I do get out, there are other things that I want to do with my life.
LaVell Edwards
#29. I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.
Assata Shakur
#30. Three o'clock. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#31. At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
George McGovern
#32. Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison
#33. I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.
Arj Barker
#34. I hate winter. I've lived in Syracuse my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and ends too late. No one likes it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#35. We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.
Josh Silver
#36. Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on.
Liane Moriarty
#37. As always, my alarm went off too early, yanking me back into a world I wasn't quite prepared to deal with. I looked automatically toward the window as I sat up. Only three bloody crescents marked the spots where bluebirds had managed to slam themselves to death against the glass.
Seanan McGuire
#38. We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
George Washington
#39. It was 2:00 p.m., too early for wine but not for chocolate.
Andrea Hurst
#41. Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.
Matt Roper
#42. It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.
Robin Sharma
#43. Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.
Guy Kawasaki
#44. That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off.
Joe Haldeman
#45. It's never too early to begin pointing your little ones' souls heavenward.
Elizabeth George
#46. John (Grisham) was really helpful keeping me on track, not wandering off into subplots, making sure I didn't spill the beans too early, all kinds of nitty-gritty things that you've gotta have under control if you're going to write a good thriller.
Tony Vanderwarker
#47. For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
Esther Duflo
#48. You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who get embraced too early, and they tend to flame out, but it's really rare that someone gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of hard work.
Chris Gethard
#49. Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.
Ariel Pink
#50. Here's some exciting news - according to The New York Post, both Al Gore and John Kerry are thinking of running for president in 2008. Gore and Kerry again! Political experts say it's too early to tell who would lose bigger!
Jay Leno
#51. It's Never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#52. Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.
Tracy Morgan
#53. He was looking for programs on which he might be allowed to appear. But it was too early in the evening for programs that allowed people with peculiar opinions to speak out. It was only a little after eight o'clock, so all the shows were about silliness or murder.
Kurt Vonnegut
#54. It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
Louisa May Alcott
#55. By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#56. The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.
John Locke
#57. My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
Conrad Veidt
#58. It was too early for any of my friends to have come home.
Hell, it wasn't even nine yet, which meant it was probably also too early for a serial killer to pay a visit.
J. Lynn
#59. She wrinkles up her nose. "It's ten o'clock in the morning."
"So? It's never too early for chocolate.
Lauren Barnholdt
#60. My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
William Shakespeare
#61. Its too early in the morning for it to be the morning
Cesar
#62. Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Oscar Wilde
#63. Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
Epicurus
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.
Paul Auster
#68. 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
#69. God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
R.T. Kendall
#70. If we're starting over," he says, quietly, "is it too early to say I love you?
Kyra Davis
#71. Wherever you are - it's too early to draw a conclusion. You may be down, but you're not done. Today's defeat could be tomorrow's gold.
Joe Jordan
#72. America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
Claire Wolfe
#73. The day had, in fact, reached that gentle point when it was too late for housebreaking and too early for burglary.
Terry Pratchett
#74. I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
Dennis Ritchie
#75. Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
Chuck Schumer
#76. Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters.
Aldo Leopold
#77. Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
Paul Graham
#78. If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line.
[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]
Max Frisch
#79. The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.
Uwe Boll
#80. It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.
Noorilhuda
#81. The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#83. Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become stunted child parts disguised in a grown-up body.
Angela Hoke
#84. The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
Bill Veeck
#85. I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early ... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.
Mickey Spillane
#86. Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Branch Rickey
#87. I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#88. And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
Gregory Harrison
#89. It is too early to tell whether the Internet's effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is not too early to tell that there is nothing that happened between 1450 and now that comes close.'49
John Naughton
#90. Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.
Margaret Atwood
#91. Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
Paul Cezanne
#92. You know why love stories have happy endings?" I shake my head.
"Because they end too early," she continues. "They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.
Hank Moody
#93. Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus
#94. Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
Chris Murray
#95. It is never too early to encourage long-term savings.
Ron Lewis
#96. He must have felt a surge as he pulled away out of my mouth careful not to come too early and ruin the rest of his playtime.
Nicci Greene
#97. Mark v 39' - pencilled note to journo who rushed around on the rumour cora pearl had died. (as it was too early for her to give interviews)Finally he found a bible and mark v 39 is:'the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth
Cora Pearl
#98. You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.
Andy Rooney
#99. All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.
Marcus Aurelius
#100. I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.
Michael Ritchie
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