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Quotes About Late

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. The cogs miss, the wheels turn, and lives interlace too early or too late.
~ Ray Bradbury
School busses...Won't even give us a chance to be late for school...Never be late again in all our lives. Think of that nightmare,Doug, just think it all over.
~ Ray Bradbury
He almost turned back to make the walk again, to give her time to appear. He was certain if he tried the same route, everything would work out fine. But it was late, and the arrival of his train put a stop to his plan.
~ Ray Bradbury
Que coisa engraçada é a vida, esse arranjo misterioso de lógica impiedosa e propósito fútil. O máximo que se pode esperar dela é algum conhecimento de si mesmo, que vem tarde demais, uma seara de remorsos inextinguíveis.
~ Joseph Conrad
The other shoe went flying unto the devil-god of that river. I thought, 'By Jove! it's all over. We are too late; he has vanished—the gift has vanished, by means of some spear, arrow, or club. I will never hear that chap speak after all,'—and my sorrow had a startling extravagance of emotion
~ Joseph Conrad
We are late, Alexandra," said the dowager duchess as she stood in Alex's drawing room idly examining a magnificent fourteenth-century sculpture reposing on a satinwood table. "And I don't mind telling you, now that the time is upon us, I have a worse feeling about this now than I did earlier. And my instincts are never wrong.
~ Judith McNaught
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
~ Walter Bagehot
Incidentally, I don't know how late you were planning to stay, but there is an excellent film this evening The Snake Pit . It's a wonderful comedy. I've seen it several times.
~ Daniel Manus Pinkwater
What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world." "You don't say." "Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.
~ Daniel Stashower
What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world." "You don't say." "Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.
~ Daniel Stashower
Time is only a state of mind, so being late is only a thought one can posess.
~ Dave
Dawn seemed to come late the next day, as if the sun had decided to sleep in, the sky wrapped in gray clouds, the threat of rain heavy and imminent.
~ James Dashner
Sorry about being late," Trina said. "I'd make up a great excuse, but honesty's the best policy. Mark made me go up to the stream and we … you know." It took a lot to surprise Mark these days, even more to make him blush, but Trina had the ability to do both. He stammered as Lana rolled her eyes.
~ James Dashner
Early in a game time seems abundant, and there appears a greater freedom to develop future strategies. Late in a game, time is rapidly being consumed. As choices become more limited they become more important. Errors are more disastrous.
~ James P. Carse
Ga daar de hoek om,' commandeerde Morgan Drummond. 'Snij af door het park. En waag het niet om die verrekte meter nog verder op te laten lopen.' ... Kady greep naar haar heuptasje. 'Oom Edward, u mag wel even met mijn mobieltje bellen dat we te laat komen.' 'Maar we komen niet te laten,' zei Morgan en wendde zich tot de chauffeur. 'Of wel soms?
~ James Rollins
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~ Douglas Adams
Fifteen seconds later he left the house, five hours late but moving fast.
~ Douglas Adams
Come,' called the old man, 'come now or you will be late.' 'Late?' said Arthur. 'What for?' 'What is your name, human?' 'Dent. Arthur Dent,' said Arthur. 'Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent,' said the old man, sternly. 'It's a sort of threat you see.
~ Douglas Adams
Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent," said the old man, sternly.
~ Douglas Adams
R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It
~ Douglas Adams
is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It
~ Douglas Adams
you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now.
~ Douglas Adams
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
~ Alanis Morissette
I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.
~ Rene Russo