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“There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.”

Knows Long Moments Happens Turns Late Goodbye Too Late Let Her Go

Author:Johnny Mercer

“Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.”

Men Late Perceive Satan Too Late Temper Hook Bait Anglers

Book:A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.”

Men Home Body Form Night Space Late Rain Prison Misery Heavy Bones Hungry Private Prisons

Author:Willem de Kooning

“I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.”

Thinking Knows Should Mean Remember Used Night Stars Black White Watches Late Should Have Actresses Black And White Youngsters Pun

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.”

Soul States Spirit Fall Born Sin Lord Forever Taught Holy Late Praise Saviour Taught Us Baptized

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.”

Cases Theory Becoming Late Capitalist Compelling Time Passes Confirmation

Book:Why Marx Was Right

Source: Why Marx Was Right

“Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.”

Source: Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938

“As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.”

Whole Together Lying Found Water Objects Broken Type Elements Late Skins Passages Fragments Disturbing Disturbed Seals Jars Burial Pottery Vases Rubble Lying On The Floor Small Objects

Author:Howard Carter

“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.”

“Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person who has been around since the late 1970s. He has developed and changed remarkably, whilst remaining true to his vision. He has been a great help to me as well, without his knowing it.”

World Wells Persons Has Beens Art Helping Vision Knowing Influence Changed Late Caves

Author:Nick Cave

“I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.”

World Order Grew Speech Late Grew Up Concepts Too Late New World Freedom Of Speech New World Order World Order

Author:Bobby Fischer

“If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.”

Ifs Feels Waiting Late Best Things Too Late Numb All The Best

Author:Dorothy Gilman

“Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.”

Way Age Fun Stuff Accepting Darkness Materials Amount Periods Late My Family Starting Relate Excitement Related Scare Loved Ones Darkness Inside

Author:Ben Gibbard

“I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.”

Whole Nations Fans Band Late Machines Whole Life Canada Geek Collecting Pinball

Author:Ed Robertson

“I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.”

Trying Lasts Used Games Winning Loses Half Player Fans Minutes Late Patient Kitchen Gates Fifteen Going Out Be Patient Gamble Half Time Kitchen Sinks

Author:Alex Ferguson

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.”

Whole Childhood New York Late Musician Conscious Organization Filled Concerts Classical Music Ensemble Starters

Author:Gunther Schuller

“I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.”

People Years Done Talking Wall Late Posts Shut Up Dungeons

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument .”

Ifs Trying Today Causes Late Argument Regard Expected Proof Agents Reasonable Resolve Comment Association Viruses Immune Skeptic Immune System Causation

Author:Walter Gilbert

“I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.”

People Hate Late I Hate Theater Eight Dinner Hungry Bother Tramps

Author:Lorenz Hart

“It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.”

Mind Late Too Late Cliffs Changing Your Mind

Book:The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series

Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series

“You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are”

Knows Stars Late Who You Are Too Late Never Too Late

Author:Chad Kroeger

“You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.”

People Ifs Should Made Wanted Ready Development Demand Late Research Should Have Available Department Too Late Foreseen

Author:Charles Kettering

“Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.”

Kind Persons Facts Home Beautiful Faces Young Certain Fall Late Summer Ugly Witch Profile Young Ladies

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...”

Light Waiting Sacrifice Late Slave Ships Neon Slave Ships Neon Lights

Author:Tom Morello

“But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.”

Should Said Acting Mistake Our Lives Seeing Late Should Have Too Late Life Wisdom Unsaid

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.”

“It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.”

Littles Doe Facts Use Dies Force Doubt Failing Late Sight Police Threat Killing Harm No Doubt Justify Suspects Officers Unfortunate Felony Deadly Force

Author:Byron White

“The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.”

Whole Running Results Careers Written Subjects Source Pride Conversation Late Jokes Originals Critics Scripts Stranger Bridges Massive Builder Portfolios Mcqueen Old Jokes Cannonballs

Author:Brock Yates

“It's the Devil's way now, There is no way out, You can scream and you can shout, It is too late now.”

Way Late Devil Too Late Scream

Author:Thom Yorke

“In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.”

“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”

Years Lasts Differences Events Late Rewards Recognition Thirty Making A Difference Too Late Inferiors Thirty Years Exalted

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves.”

People Thinking May Wish Sin Lord Kindness Taken Late Mercy Charity Saved Damn Too Late Our Lord

Book:The Ladder of Perfection

Source: The Ladder of Perfection

“The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.”

“The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.”

Littles Church Scene Late Breathless

Author:Bernard Lonergan

“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”

May Has Beens Attention One Thing Late Oneself Distraction Capitalist Repetition Favour

Author:Jan Peacock

“It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.”

Thinking Men Return Late Ships Celebrate

Author:Michael Moorcock

“If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.”

Ifs Thinking World Remember Dying Late Cancer Versions Too Late Signing Signing Up

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.”

Men May Evil Given Too Much Habit Late Clock Beloved Forty Be A Man Alarms Treacherous Alarm Clocks

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.”

Heart Hurt Late Too Late Destination

Book:R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry

Source: R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry

“Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable.”

“As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article by Albert Jay Nock, in which he proved that the Jews are an Oriental race that is incompatible with ours. He was not punished and the magazine was not destroyed, strange and almost incredible as that seems today.”

Men Long Stills Seems Today White Race Strange Late Summer Incredibles Jew Destroyed Magazines Articles White Man Edited

Author:Revilo P. Oliver

“In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!”

Ifs Wealth Taken Land Late Garden Property Unions Plot Vegetables Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Mary Ruwart

“If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.”

Ifs Knows States Reason Whole Term White United Race United States Late Concepts Tricks Colony Descent Whiteness White Race

Author:Tim Wise

“What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.”

Two Problem Christian Interest Christianity Cases Development Return Late Response Endure Resolve Involvement Piety Critique Antichrist Public Interest Wagner

Author:John Carroll

“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.”

“The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.”

Knows World Years Has Beens Made Book Romance Literature Late Discovery Consequence Ancient Thanks Succession Imports

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.”

Late Red Gold Lays Sunshine Yellow Pale Purple Ripe Flowering Slender Plums Thickets

Book:A Country Calendar, and Other Writings

Source: A Country Calendar, and Other Writings

“I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.”

Trying Humans Book Reason Law Natural Rooms Written Late Hearing Staring Recalls Blank Monkeys Spain Ridicule Conferences Incidents Involving Natural Law Antics Blank Stares

Author:Frank Van Dun

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.”

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