"I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living."

-- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

#Too Late Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Late Quotes

“When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.”

Source : Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light.”

Source : "'Even in Darkness, It Is Possible To Create Light' - Elie Wiesel Top Quotes on Survival, Faith and Perseverance Upon News of Death" by Jonalyn Cueto, www.christianpost.com. July 3, 2016.
“If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?”
“Follow your own star!”
“Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.”
“Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.”
“Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.416, Macmillan

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