I Quotes
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“It is never pleasant to have our old shrines desecrated, even when we have outgrown them.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.”
“It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.”
Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers
“It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.”
“It is never progressing if it has not attracted the envy”
“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.”
“It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.”
“It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.”
“It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.”
“It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.”
“It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.”
“It is never that people hate the truth for the sake of hating the truth. Like anything else, they only hate it when it makes them uncomfortable, or when it makes them look bad; and the deeper they're invested in an untruth, the more they will hate the actual truth.”
“It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.”
Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions
“It is never the machines that are dead.
It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.”
“It is never the privileged outsider who gets to decide when they’re a good ally. Especially not if they want to use their status as an ally to excuse whatever they have done that has offended someone in the group they claim to be supporting.”
Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“It is never the thing but the version of the thing.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“It is never the thing but the version of the thing:
The fragrance of the woman not her self,
Her self in her manner not the solid block,
The day in its color not perpending time,
Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord,
The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.”
Source: Dissertation on First-principles of Government
“It is never to late to practice proper Netiquette. Start today. Be nice!”
“It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.”
Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)
“It is never too late in life to practice yoga”
“It is never too late.
It is never too late to dream big.
It is never too late to study.
It is never too late to read.
It is never too late to begin.
It is never too late to marry.
It is never too late to conceive.
It is never too late to repent.
It is never too late to drive.
It is never too late to travel.
It is never too late to forgive,
It is never too late to exercise.
It is never too late to write.
It is never too late to ask for what you wish for.
It is never too late to try again.
It is never too late to change.
It is never too late to work.”
“It is never too late or too early; you are never too young or too old. You can do what you can do.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“It is never too late or too soon. It is when is it supposed to be.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
“It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to change the life I am living? Am I ready to change within?’ Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to make a life change?’ Is it possible for me to change from within?”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“It is never too late to be decent to each other.”
“It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being.”
Source: The Happiest Man on Earth
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
The biggest single problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw”
Source: MUTE SWANS: A hauntingly beautiful exploration of love, loss, and second chances
“It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible”
“It is never too late to be who you want to be.”
“It is never too late to be wise.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
“It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.”
Source: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Second Edition): and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772
“It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.”
“It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“It is never too late to begin the process of seeing your own duality.”
Source: Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life
“It is never too late to do anything in life.”
“It is never too late to do anything, unless it is really too late and you are. dead. The moment you start thinking it is too late, then you begin to die. I will keep going and do all I want to do.”
Source: The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
“It is never too late to dream a new dream.”
“It is never too late to establish your digital personal brand.”
Source: Digital Personal Branding: The Essential Guide to Online Personal Branding in the Digital Age
“It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.”
Source: The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's
“It is never too late to find happiness, surely?”
Source: A Whiff of Scandal
“It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.”
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
“It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.”
Source: Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit