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While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin


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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
MARTY MEEHAN We were here all year. We were ready, willing and able to meet and now it's too late.
DONNA HAYES Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it...
ANON. Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it...
SOURCE UNKNOWN If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we...
DEEPAK CHOPRA It is never too late to passionately care for humanity while loving yourself endlessly.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's never too late to say 'I am ready'!
JALAL ERRAZI Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin –...
ROBERT HARRIS It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just get it right, “it is not too late to dream”. You can do it now! This very moment, I mean ri...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When people do think about it is when the warm weather hits and it's too late. But it's not too late...
JANET CANGEMI Check the beginning of evil; the remedy is too late when the disease by delay has increased in stre...
UNKNOWN Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no coun...
RUCKETT Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no coun...
ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE It's arguable that even if legislation is enacted beginning in October, it may be too little, too la...
CHARLES LYNCH The brain is most important right at the beginning to begin rehab - we gain a lot of it back.
KAREN WILSON We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this senti...
MARINA KEEGAN It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA It is never too late to change the way you eat - once you do, your body will thank you with a longer...
DAVID H. MURDOCK Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkl...
MARIE BEYON RAY Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkl...
MARIE BEYNON RAY Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
UNKNOWN It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gav...
SAMANTHA STOSUR The bottom line is, Tram didn't do things right at the beginning as a manager and by the time he tri...
BRANDON INGE We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
BRET HARTE It was a little problem at the beginning. I felt it in the first couple of minutes. It took me a whi...
JUAN DIAZ I historically save my timeouts for the end of the game. By then, it was too late. I should have use...
DAVID MAGLEY We want to make sure it is on everybody's radar while the session is just beginning.
BRIAN WINFIELD As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better wa...
HELEN M. CAM Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late....
SHIRLEY MACLAINE It was too little, too late. We missed the mark.
BENNIE THOMPSON Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life chal...
ANONYMOUS Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
HOWARD STERN While a late-winter cold snap or cool spring could whittle down some of the storage surplus, it is p...
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK To begin at the beginning.
DYLAN THOMAS To begin at the beginning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is wha...
XUN KUANG It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what sho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE It's too early to go, but it's never too late to leave.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS A lot of parents think it's a difficult subject, talking to their kids about the dangers of drugs an...
JENNIFER STATER It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
MITCH ALBOM I just don't think we were mentally ready to play at all. We just weren't all there, and it was obvi...
DEAN STORK It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then...
EDNA FERBER James would have needed about two months to prepare. It is a specialist item. He was informed too la...
JAMES PERRY It is not too late to start again
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is never too late to be wise.
DANIEL DEFOE Two more minutes is all we needed. If we would have got going sooner, it might have been different. ...
AMY BEGGIN It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the ...
HENRY B. EYRING A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all...
CHRISTY MATHEWSON We started it 40 minutes late so it would begin at exactly the moment people think she died.
PAUL ALEXANDER It is about loss and dealing with regret. You have to tell people how you feel about them and deal w...
SHAWN MILLER We had to settle down. We were too geared up to play and once we settled down it was too little, too...
CORY SCHAEFER It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
MITCH ALBOM I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.
LISA SCHROEDER ... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
IVAN TURGENEV If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
IVAN TURGENEV It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA It is never too late to fall in love.
SANDY WILSON I think this year, being an Olympic year, we have learned in the past what not to do. Because usuall...
NANCY JOHNSON We never have good third quarters. We just came out so nonchalant and so relaxed. Then it takes us a...
CHARLOTTE JONES The beginning seems bitter to you, but the end is sweeter for you. However, you can’t get through ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
JANE AUSTEN A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND We need to be ready to ship our products right away at the beginning of the year, so a show in Octob...
DAN MURPHY We expect the impacts to South Florida to begin late [Thursday] afternoon with squalls and surge.
BEN NELSON But it is far too late for me to try it.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI We are ready to begin fulfilling these orders as soon as we get a ... contract.
GEORGE ABERCROMBIE When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
UNKNOWN We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this deb...
MARSHA BLACKBURN Arbitration is a last resort, but if Ukraine is ready to do this we are ready too.
ALEXANDER MEDVEDEV I'm pleased to see that DHS agrees that it is nowhere near ready to begin moving on this unwise prop...
COLLEEN KELLEY It is never too late to have a happy childhood
TOM ROBBINS It is never too late to give up your prejudices
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is never too late to seek a better world
NICK KINSELLA With something this large, we have to take a look at infrastructure around it. We?re getting ready t...
DAN COLE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some...
NIECY NASH Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It paints a picture of a state that is obviously growing very quickly but needs some deliberate thou...
BEADSIE WOO We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too...
PETER ABRAHAMS It's too late for us, but it is not too late for other women and children who are experiencing abuse...
MARC LANOIS A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
AMY TAN Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier befo...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but...
DAVID SUZUKI It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
FRANCIS QUARLES Is it ever too late for a sequel?
GARY GOETZMAN There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
OG MANDINO I think experience played into it. We were excited before the game, but I think when we got out ther...
CODY GREEN The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's ...
JEREMY GRANTHAM We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and i...
TAYA KYLE One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a l...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

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