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Quotes About Belatedly

Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly. "Mr. Kirk, you're a man after my own heart.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
~ Jan Egeland
The problem with a great democracy like the United States, George Kennan once noted, was that it was almost always like a sleeping giant, impervious to its surroundings until suddenly and belatedly awoken, when it proved so angry about what it discovered that it started lashing out wildly.
~ David Halberstam
It came to Tej then, belatedly, that Lady Alys had just spent much of the prior conversation slowly, gently, and thoroughly roasting her son.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It was not an inordinately large ass, yet the heft of it seemed to connect him to an immense source of gravitation, one for which he was belatedly grateful, as though for a long time he had been weightless and drifting.
~ Michael Chabon
Although they, once again, knew nothing about the island, they decided to sail for it, belatedly realizing that the potential terrors of an unknown island were nothing compared to the known terrors of an open boat in the open ocean.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
~ Jeff Daniels
Not before night approaches can we savor how miraculous the day, and the blossoms we gather belatedly, have been.
~ Christopher S. Wren