Best 388 quotes in «late quotes» category

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

Better to start early than finish late.

And you're late." "I prefer chronologically challenged.

Come on!" Clera tossed Nona her shoes and dropped to the floor. "Mistress Spirit is the worst!" "I thought you said the Poisoner was the worst!" "They're all the worst when you're late!

By the time most people say 'I'm sorry' it is already too late.

By the time she had finished unburdening herself, someone had turned off the moon

Destiny is never late.

Don’t be late or I may end up marrying the judge.

Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late.

For all summer I closed the drapes, I shut the glass windows and painted them black. So when winter came I break the glass, I draw the drapes apart and let the sunlight come in. I often do the right things a little too late. I often let in sunshine after the sun has set.

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

He's not safe. He's the shark-infested deep end of the sea and if I agree to go out with him, I'd be walking the plank, right off the boat and into his dark depth. How am I supposed to do that when I don't even know if I can swim?

I am always running 5 minutes later than the latest you'll think I would be

Berlin's getting dark before it's getting late.

If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minutes' regulated time, he makes no influence. Strike now before it becomes too late!

I'm late, the kind of late that suggest I have no regard for the emotional health of my Nigerian parents who probably think I've been kidnapped by the enemies of progress.

I saw many people who begun their marathon races lately, but they eventually came up as top winners. I believe that your "lateness" does not account for your "lastness". It's not too late for you to make a start... Begin it now! No further delays!

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

It is never too late or too early; you are never too young or too old. You can do what you can do.

It is never too late to show true character.

It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.

It's never too late to tell someone that you don't like them.

It's not that I'm ahead of my time, it's more that the world is running late

Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late, since it put everyone out, and even worse, people who were early always acted terribly superior about their bad timekeeping skills. They acted as though it were morally more righteous to get up early than to stay up late, even if you got the same amount of work done in the exact same amount of time. Magnus found it to be one of the great injustices of life.

Man brevene med posten bandt og sagde: Vær ei sene! De svarte: Vi var aldrig vant på vei at tælle stene!

Morning, guys!! Today, I wandered a bit from the path of life...

Never come late to a party you were supposed to host. Second chances are rare. If you miss them... cry.

No knowledge comes to you late. It comes just at the time when you are ready for it.

If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late.

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

Sorry I'm late," Ms. Egami said to the class. She dropped her papers, which scattered in that special way papers do when one is running late.

The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.

That's the funny thing about old people: they never seem in a hurry. I think old people have figured out that being five minutes late really doesn't matter much.

The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.

The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie.

The world burns from the inside out. You don’t see it until it’s too late.

They are waiting for us again. My youngest lad and me. The crows around the floodlights. The dogs around the gates. They are waiting for us because we are late again. My youngest lad and me.

Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin.

Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code. Death the destroyer never is late!

The courthouse clock struck nine and it was getting late and it was really night on this small street in a small town in a big state on a large continent on a planet earth hurtling down the pit of space toward nowhere or somewhere and Tom feeling every mile of the long drop.

The moon seemed to veil herself before the bold looks of Satan. The night was cold. All the doors were closed, all the windows darkened. and the streets deserted. From their appearance, one would have imagined that, for a long time past no foot had traversed those silent streets. Everything around us bore a death-like aspect. It seemed as if, when day came, no one would open their doors; that no head, of woman or of child, would look out of those dark, dull windows; that no step would break the silence which fell, like a pall, upon all around. I seemed to be walking in a city which had been buried some ages. In truth, the town seemed to have been depopulated, and the cemetery to have grown full. Still we went forward, without hearing a murmur, or meeting even with a shadow. The street stretched for a long way across this fearful city of silence and repose. At last we reached my house. 'You remember it?' said the fiend. 'Yes,' replied I, sullenly, 'let us enter.' 'First,' said he, 'we must open the door. It is I, by the way, who invented the science of opening doors without breaking them in. In fact, I have a second key to all doors and gates - with one exception - that of Paradise!

Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time

When it is late, everyone cares!

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.

Your later may be late. Never postpone your salvation HOURS to tomorrow. If it's not now, it may be never. The days are not OURS!

A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy’s Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.