Top 100 You're Too Late Quotes
#1. You're too late. She's my wife."
"No, she's your widow."
His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#2. There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#3. If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
Stuart Rose
#4. Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.
Johan Cruijff
#5. And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay"
"Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
John Denver
#6. Hurt me?" he asked. "How would you do that? By taking away everything I love? Everything I honour? You're too late, Hannah. Far too late. Fallon already did that."
Claire's terrible feeling suddenly condensed into a heavy, sickening weight. "He took Jesse," she said. "Fallon took Jesse.
Rachel Caine
#7. I'll make some inquiries, but I won't do it for you. I'll do it because Frannie would want me to."
"You love her, don't you?"
"Go to hell."
Jack laughed. "You're too late with that command, mate. I've been there since I was born.
Lorraine Heath
#9. Some say we're already damned," Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. "So you're too late to send him to Hell."
BLOOD KNOT
Tracy Cooper-Posey
#10. The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it's too late and you're face down eating sand.
Buffy Andrews
#11. matter what situation you're in or how bad you feel about yourself, it is NEVER too late to make a difference in your life.
Ariel Bach
#12. When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.
Harvey MacKay
#13. Gethen shouted threats as they left, but the warnings were as empty as his sandy cell. His final words to Keefe were the only ones with any impact. "You're choosing the wrong side, boy. You'll regret it when you see your mother's vision realized. But then it'll be too late.
Shannon Messenger
#14. Love never comes when you're ready for it... As soon as you're ready for it, it's too late, and it's gone.
Katherine Marple
#15. So here I am, alone."
"You're not alone."
"When you're facing death, you're alone."
I grab Jenna by the shoulders. "Here's a news flash for you. We all face death. We all walk alone. The only difference is most of us don't know how close we are to it until it's too late.
Lisa Mondello
#16. You're going to listen to me; and if you get ugly like you said, I'll become your worst nightmare.'
'Too late, buttercup. You became my worst nightmare years ago
Rachel Gibson
#17. You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don't mean anything, but it's too late because you're reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I'm saying. It's easy to get fooled.
Emily Croy Barker
#18. You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
Roger Ailes
#19. There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
Hanya Yanagihara
#20. You're about to enter the future gate.
Come in now, or later will be too late.
Toba Beta
#21. With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.
Reid Hoffman
#22. If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
Aaron Levie
#23. When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
Haruki Murakami
#24. It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber
#25. Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.
Joseph O'Neill
#26. If you're asking yourself who the content is for, it's already too late to make an impact.
Dane Brookes
#27. I promise to keep my hands, tongue, and other body parts to myself. You risk your life by staying home. It's late and we're both too wiped out to go climbing into the People's lair tonight. What do you risk by coming with me?"
"A huge migraine from being in your company.
Ilona Andrews
#28. Don't worry, I plan on living a long time."
"Why are you making a bucket list, then?"
"Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.
Gayle Forman
#29. It's never too late to change the road that you're on.
Samantha Young
#30. The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.
Ren Ng
#31. It's never too late to change, unless you're already fully undressed
Benny Bellamacina
#32. I squeeze my eyes shut and whisper in her damp hair. 'You're all I see, Sloan. Beyond the job, beyond right and wrong. You're all I see.
Colleen Hoover
#33. Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you're searching, ponder this: We've taken what you'll sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look, And to recover what we took, But past an hour - the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.
J.K. Rowling
#34. Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find
that their wives do have sense?"
"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.
Margaret Mitchell
#35. When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.
Jackie Warner
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Watch it, Romeo." she whispered, "or you're going to make my nipples show through my top."
He glanced down, then said, "Too late.
Toni Blake
#39. By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do not refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor. There's a reason vampires aren't known for their senses of humour.
If you accidentally do so, I'd say run, but it's probably already too late.
Jacqueline Carey
#40. You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
Loni Anderson
#41. Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.
Louise Hay
#42. We're led to believe love is complicated. It's not the love that's complicated. It's all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you're smart, you'll realize this before it's too late and simplify.
Alison G. Bailey
#43. Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we're no different you're saying- We are, soldier. We possess the privilege of choice. The gift of foresight. Though often we come too late in acknowledging responsibilities ... .
Steven Erikson
#44. But it doesn't matter now. It's like an umbrella in the middle of a rainstorm after you're already wet. It's exactly what you need, what you want, but it's come too late.
Rebecca Serle
#45. Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.
Sophie Kinsella
#46. When someone is sleep-Tweeting the sexual thoughts you're currently having about them while you're having sex with someone else, miles away, it's kind of too late.
Stefan Mohamed
#47. The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.
Rick Riordan
#48. While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#49. Too late," Cath said. "And you're not my only friend." "I know - " Reagan rolled her eyes and waved a hand in the air. " - you've got the whole Internet.
Rainbow Rowell
#50. Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.
Maureen Dowd
#51. 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
#52. You don't get a choice in who you love, because often when you realize that you're in love, it's far too late to choose.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#53. I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
Flavor Flav
#54. Okay kids," Ralphie said, trailing me. "Don't be too late. Don't do any drugs, drive smart and even if all the other kids are doing it, think twice. If you're going to be over your curfew then make sure you call your Daddies or we'll get worried.
Kristen Ashley
#55. Go to hell," Sebastian muttered. "No doubt that was what you came to tell me tonight. If so, you're about a month too late."
"That was my intention," Westcliff admitted. "Now, however, I've decided to stay and have a snifter of brandy while you tell me what in God's name you're doing.
Lisa Kleypas
#56. You ain't too smart, are ya boy? I'm Javier "Bones" Jones. I'm the baddest man there is in this town or any town through The Mississippi. You thinking you're gonna waltz up on me and kill me? Ha! I'll do for you like I did for my late dog and put you out of your misery.
Justin Bienvenue
#57. You're never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.
Bikram Choudhury
#58. You're always just a little too late. You've spent half your life battling regrets. Making up for the past rather than getting it done in the present.
Guillermo Del Toro
#59. Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive at a conclusion. Sometimes it takes too long, and by the time I'm convinced, it's already too late. But what're you going to do? That's the kind of person I am.
Haruki Murakami
#60. Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too late.
Richard Harris
#61. And I thought
when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.
CrimethInc.
#62. Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It's like one day, you just realize you're not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it's too late to change anything.
Kristin Harmel
#63. In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old ... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#64. Suppose that you didn't make your Easter duty and it's Pentecost Sunday, the last day, and you're on a ship at sea. And the chaplain goes into a coma! But you wanted to receive. And then it's Monday, too late ... But then you cross the International Date Line! Would that then be a sin then, Father?
George Carlin
#65. It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.
Seth
#66. I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
Maya Angelou
#67. I knew what I'd say to him: You're much too late. We went ahead with our lives without you.
Abraham Verghese
#68. Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.
Garth Stein
#69. It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space
that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.
Peter S. Beagle
#70. You can tell them to run all you want but there aren't a lot of people that will, until they believe they're in major danger - which is usually too late. They gape like cows, and if you don't know it, cows gape a lot.
Karen Marie Moning
#71. There's only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you're not there, you're either too early or too late.
Johan Cruijff
#72. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.
Gina Greenlee
#73. It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
Marianne Williamson
#74. The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late.
Peter Hoeg
#75. Yeah. Think I'll have to pass on the sex, though."
"We don't have to have sex just because you're staying the night."
"Oh! I thought it was the standard fee for the pillow, but now when I know better..."
"I might take that back..."
"Too late!" she laughed.
Lina Andersson
#76. It's in that moment, when there's nothing, that you find out what you were willing to forgive, and what not. Too late for that, though. Too late.
Kate Wrath
#77. SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
Gary Wolf
#78. The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
Denzel Washington
#79. I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
Nat King Cole
#80. I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too late for me to skip to the next song. Like, maybe when you're dying, you actually want to hear something really upbeat.
Leila Sales
#81. Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay ... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it ... You're making my scales itch.
Saphira, from Eragon
Christopher Paolini
#82. Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don't know you're a member until it's too late to get out.
Robert Anton Wilson
#83. We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Jerry Garcia
#84. It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#85. If you're looking for friends when you need them ... it's too late.
Mark Twain
#86. You're right, but it's never too late for breakfast.
Anonymous
#87. It was too late the first day we met. You're inside me, and I 'm inside you. It's done.
Nalini Singh
#88. Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands?
Ray Bradbury
#89. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
Muriel Barbery
#90. You're late,' he said.
'I'm beautiful.'
'You're always beautiful.'
'I'm always late too.
Derek Landy
#91. The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.
Katie Dale
#92. The trouble with the merely unwise/deeply stupid line is that you often don't know which side you're on until it's too late.
Ransom Riggs
#93. thirty is a watershed year for men. If they're going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don't, it's too late. So you mustn't hanker after men in their twenties.
Eloisa James
#94. Once you're already in hell, it's too late to beg for mercy.
Devon Ashley
#95. I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.
Josh Homme
#96. It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Betty Ford
#97. Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.
David Letterman
#98. Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.
Haruki Murakami
#99. You have to be careful," Pwnage said, "with people who are puzzles and people who are traps. A puzzle can be solved but a trap cannot. Usually what happens is you think someone's a puzzle until you realize they're a trap. But by then it's too late. That's the trap.
Nathan Hill
#100. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
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