Late Quotes - Page 16

• Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi"

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• One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Too Late, Lines, Existentialism

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartr, Inès, act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Too Late, Stories

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• The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

  Bob Schieffer

  Friday, Holiday, Weekend

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• My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.

  Howard Schultz

  Drinking, Coffee, Kids

  "Starbucks hits 40 feeling perky". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 6, 2011.

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• It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

  Morrie Schwartz

  People, New Friendship, Too Late

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

  Jill Scott

  Video, Awful, Way

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• The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

  Will Self

  Jobs, Years, Two

  "My Other Life: Will Self". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Birthday, Summer

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• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Three

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

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• Better never than late.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Time, Sarcasm

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• 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

  Rob Sheffield

  Flower, Night, Urban Legends

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• Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

  Rob Sheffield

  America, Twenties, Would Be

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• If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Steps, Process

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Apr 27, 2016

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• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  Zadie Smith

  White, Teeth, Different

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Olympia Snowe

  Cancer, Simple, Long

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• Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, Generations, Too Late

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Musical, Firsts, Woody

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• In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

  Danielle Steel

  Teenage, Real, Passion

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• Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Reality, Banquets

  "Banquet of Consequences". Speech by Bart Chilton, Commissioner Commodity Futures Trading Commission before the Environmental Markets Association 12th Annual Fall Conference, Seattle, Washington, www.cftc.gov. November 19, 2008.

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• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Feet, Two

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• 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

  Passion, Too Late, Firsts

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• Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

  James Surowiecki

  Differences, Making A Difference, Tasks

  "The Stimulus Strategy". www.newyorker.com. February 25, 2008.

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• Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Too Late, Warning

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