Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.
No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.
The ultimate end. . . is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.
I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went.
You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo. . . ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness. . . and if you lose that, you’re nothing
Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.
I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.
If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.
My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.