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Quotes About Late

I saw the new moon late yestreenWi' the auld moon in her arm;And if we gang to sea, master,I fear we'll come to harm.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
Howarth began to see that, however much it was against ones will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late.
~ Anthony Burgess
Bessus's moment came too late, for the Fates had already cut the empire's thread with their shears.
~ Anthony Everitt
I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
~ Philip Roth
I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.
~ Fred Armisen
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
~ Aaron McGruder
I was late to the franchise; 'Days of Future Past' was the first X-Men movie I saw.
~ Tye Sheridan
It was the mentality that obsessed him: the exact mind, the impatience of solecisms and facile generalizations!… A queer catalogue of the charms of one's lady love!… But he wanted to hear her say: "Oh, chuck it, Edith Ethel!" when Edith Ethel Duchemin, now of course Lady Macmaster, quoted some of the opinions expressed in Macmaster's critical monograph about the late Mr Rossetti… How very late now!
~ Ford Madox Ford
No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They'd rather die. It's so uncool to be early.
~ Francine Pascal
She emerges from the station directly across from the restaurant. And she's right on time. Like magic, Sonya thinks, briefly saddened to realize that this is what magic means now: not being late, not getting lost on the subway. Whatever happened to the fairy godmothers, to all those bunnies yanked out of hats?
~ Francine Prose
My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.
~ Linwood Barclay
I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
~ Jill Clayburgh
All through the dream there was a sense of great disorder, of movements which accomplished nothing, of everything being late, of everybody waiting, restless and defeated.
~ Anais Nin
It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was Isabel's main accessory as she dashed in late to work, always with two or three CDs, usually new, tucked under her arm. At night, when I crawled out on my rooftop, it was what I heard first
~ Sarah Dessen
Humankind is still fooling around with hypocrisy, I thought. They don't realize that it's too late even for that.
~ Saul Bellow
Natural units tell us that in a well-defined sense the Universe is very old already, about 1060 Planck times old. Life on Earth didn't appear until after the Universe was 1059 Planck times old. We were a late arrival.
~ John D. Barrow
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
~ Bob Dylan
we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
~ Edward Humes
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Back in Cambridge, the bank clock read 8:40. We went to Ivan's dining hall. The dining halls were open late for exam period. At a table near the door, two students were slumped over their books, either asleep or murdered.
~ Elif Batuman
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery