Later When Quotes
103 quotes by 97 authors
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Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It…
— Robin Meyers
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At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them…
— Georges Duhamel
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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to…
— James Earl Jones
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Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and…
— Denis Leary
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they…
— C.S. Lewis
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The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.…
— Peter Cameron
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
— William Faulkner
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Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of…
— William Goldman
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A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an…
— Alice Sebold
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We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later…
— Milan Kundera
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I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem…
— Sándor Márai
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It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been…
— Margaret George
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or…
— Anais Nin
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At first, it feels as if she has vanished forever, and all traces are destroyed. But later, when the pain of loss doesn't overwhelm all…
— Maria V. Snyder
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We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only…
— Ai Yazawa
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A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how…
— Sarah Dessen
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