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“There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.”

People Firsts Has Beens War Matter Young Turns Asks Parent Middle Events Students Late Rate Contemporary Obsessed Regimes Accurate Institute Textbooks Scholarly

Author:Robert O. Paxton

“There have been so many jokes, about sex and relationships on the "Brady Bunch" set. For some reason, tabloids picked up on this Eve thing. I was on a late-night show and I said, "Oh, yeah, I've kissed her."”

Has Beens Said Reason Shows Night Sex Late Jokes Yeah Bunch Tabloids Late Night Brady Brady Bunch

Author:Maureen McCormick

“Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.”

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Author:Andrew Mitchell

“Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.”

“I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.”

Has Beens Five Healthy Mets Late Concepts Thanks Forty Trainers Healthy Food Nutritionist

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between applied research and policy and program development. Recently there has been less interest in these issues and we feel that this interest must be rekindled.”

Feels Has Beens Social Interest Study Issues Policy Development Late Research Program Scientist Innovation Links 80s Diffusion

Author:Ruth Simmons

“Donald Trump has been saying that I think for as long as I've been listening to him of late, and that's what he's going to do.”

Thinking Long Has Beens Listening Trump Late

Author:Chris Christie

“There have been a lot of horror anthologies as of late; movies like V/H/S and The ABCs of Death have brought the anthology back in style. We sort of felt like, "Why don't we do one and do our own thing?"”

Has Beens Felt Style Horror Late Anthology

Author:Mike Mendez

“After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.”

Years Has Beens Energy Technology Couple Late Clean Decline Funding Clean Energy

Author:Ted Nordhaus

“Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late.”

“One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion." And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses."”

“Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.”

“The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.”

“At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.”

Has Beens House Hours Late Filled Valuable Belonging Articles Plates Wagons

Book:Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

Source: Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

“Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.”

Years Has Beens Past Young Feminism Movement Late Bills Feminist Enormous Organized Goods 1960s Over The Past

Author:Camille Paglia

“Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.”

Has Beens Late Scientist Impact Decades Global Warming Too Late Warning Severity

Author:David Suzuki

“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.”

May Has Beens Art Book Lost Century Design Late Albums 20th Century Jackets Iconography Lost Art Album Covers

Author:James Wolcott

“There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!'”

Thinking Has Beens Shows Age Missing Late Married Ships Too Late Honey Being Married Never Too Late

Author:Niecy Nash

“NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation”

Source: The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer

“Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.”

“In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.”

Men World Way May Has Beens Play Home Found Games Struggle Type Late Harmony Regard Victim Embrace Dollars Chaos Complicated Statements Confusion Maturity Delighted Referring Conceded

Author:Tom Robbins

“I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.”

Years Has Beens Soul Hours Late Murder Mood Tied Making Love Dump Trunks

Book:Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst

Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst

“The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.”

People Knows Men World Has Beens Sound Hurt Cry Essentials Late Moved Tyranny Too Late Historian Impatience Wisest

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”

Ifs Should Children Littles Has Beens Late Hungry Muse

Author:Ray Bradbury

“He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.”

Has Beens Sun Air Drug Late Too Late Eclipse Twilight Series Eclipse Of The Sun

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”

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Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee. "Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.”

Has Beens Said Sides Hours Break Feet Fine Ought Late Standing Knees Necks Too Late Twelve Injured Interrupted Your Side Whitney Fine Day

Author:Judith McNaught

“I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Reading Bed Late

Author:Daniel Handler

“The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.”

Has Beens Style Late Bells Admirer Tacos Decorators Taco Bell Aztec

Book:Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

Source: Persuasion: World Classics

“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so 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... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”

“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.”

Source: Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation

“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”

“I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.”

Has Beens Stills Fashion Events Husband Late Difficulty Evening Paris My Husband Tied Plates Delivery Hairstyles

Author:Gail Carriger

“My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.”

Knows Has Beens Games Late Grandfather Beaten My Grandfather Goalies Very Depressed

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.”

“How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?”

Has Beens Sports Late Introducing Good Sports

Book:Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.”

“Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.”

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Author:Buster Keaton

“There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.”

Men May Doe Has Beens Might Found Late Praise Faithful Stewards Praise God Sucessful

Author:Amy Carmichael

“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.”

Looks Has Beens Might Faces Opportunity Names Late Too Late Farewell Might Have Been Missed Opportunity

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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