Tardiness Quotes
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“It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.”
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by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.”
―

“All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it.
Yessir.
But there aint but one reason.
Yessir.
You know what it is?
No sir.
It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.”
― The Crossing
Yessir.
But there aint but one reason.
Yessir.
You know what it is?
No sir.
It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.”
― The Crossing
“[Mandela] subsequently used words that never left me: 'Because you hold a particular position, doesn't mean that you are more important that anyone else. Your time is not more valuable that anybody else's time. If you are late you show that you have no respect for another person's time and therefore no respect for other people because you consider yourself to be more important.”
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“Being early meant being on time. Being on time meant being late. But being late was unacceptable.”
― Gold Shadow
― Gold Shadow

“Musicians may be walking asscracks or they may be God鈥檚 mouthpiece on Earth, but punctual they ain鈥檛.”
― Utopia Avenue
― Utopia Avenue

“It was the day after Thanksgiving. I was the 3 p.m. backwaiter, but the trains were running irregularly, and while I had heard one sighing into the station as I ran down the stairs, my card was out of money. Which is to say, I was late.”
― Sweetbitter
― Sweetbitter

“There are some people who fall short in the being thoughtful department. They aren't being malicious but they certainly tap dance on people's last nerves with their shenanigans. These are the people who are perpetually late, take advantage of their friends in various ways, and children. We know them and we love them and we keep them in our lives but we sometimes wish that they would get their shit together.”
― I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
― I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

“My goodness, I daren't think how late we are!" She suddenly developed another craze for speed.”
― Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
― Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
“The want of punctuality is a want of honest principle; for however people may think themselves authorised to rob God and themselves of their own time, they can plead no right to lay a violent hand on the time and duties of their neighbor.”
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