Latecomers Quotes

• I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

  David Frum

  Government, Years, Issues

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• I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter

  Diane Setterfield

  Children, Winter, Events

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

  Junot Diaz

  Morning, Pieces, Paper

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

  Robert Wyatt

  Left

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

  Ian Mckellen

  Ambition, Tvs, Sitcom

  Source: collider.com

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• At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Offering, People

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• What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that
  capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially
  available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the
  Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth
  process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers
  capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided
  that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Country, Block, Europe

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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