Best Belated Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.”

Way Firsts Grows Too Much Infinite Details Impression Finishing Freshness Lava Belated

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.”

Children Age Parent Middle Youth Habit Caution Persistent Vitality Middle Ages Compensation Small Child Timidity Maternity Belated

Author:Vera Brittain

“What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.”

Knows America Found Force Morality Civilization Capable Concepts Objectives Psychological Propaganda Interpretation Distortion Psychotherapy Perversion Belated

Author:Brock Chisholm

“I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.”

Thinking Feels May Enjoy Week Couple Letting Go Majors Crisis Mortality Quarters Spontaneous Going To Work Life Crisis Belated Turning 30

Author:Chris Pine

“The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy”

Concepts Objectives Psychotherapy Belated Reinterpretation

Author:Brock Chisholm

“America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.”

“With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.”

Practice Behavior Israel Exception Ducks Lame Belated

Author:Lawrence Davidson

“[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

Limits Suspicion Captains Overwhelmed Invincible Belated

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Oh, dear." She let her head fall back to the pillow. "There it went. I've fallen in love with you now." "Just now?" Chuckling, he came to a sitting position, resting his forearm on one bent knee. "Well, thank God for belated blessings." He ran a hand through his hair. "It's been coming on rather longer than that for me." "What?" She sat bolt upright. "What can you mean? Since when?" "From the first, Amelia. From the very first.”

Firsts Wells Mean Hands Fall Love You Position Hair Blessing Sitting Dear Knees Ran Fallen Sat Thank God Bent Pillow Bolts Fall Back Amelia Belated

Author:Tessa Dare

“He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.”

Hands Light Night Found Doors Cold Winter Lips Hats Gas Halls Coats Bent Eloquence Bursting Lifeless Inarticulate Winter Night Belated

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?”

Giving Said Self Cat Glad Strings Liquor Gin Juan Self Deprecating Lattes Belated

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.”

Has Beens Funny Lines Humour Sarcasm Sarcastic Goods Advertisements Epitaph Belated

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.”

Grace Atheism Divine Judging Eternal Court Conviction Gods Will Witness Catholicism Sincerity Lungs Belief In God Mein Kampf Belated

Author:Adolf Hitler

“At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.”

Ends Cities Birth Fame Recognition Belated

Author:Leon Askin

“The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.”

“Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.”

Dream Sides Moon Forests Fairy Midnight Fountain Peasants Faerie Overhead Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Belated

Book:Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books

Source: Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books

“A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.”

Evidence Defense Funeral Eulogy Belated

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.”

Opinion Wife Suicide Acquiescence Belated

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.”

Men Has Beens Faces Natural Balance Concern Relation Environmental Conservative Disaster Recognition Ecological Intricate Belated

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970

“While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.”

People Home Today Effort Mistake Honor Empty Iraq Debate Gestures Troops Nevertheless Our Troops Belated

Author:Raul Grijalva