Molly Ivins Quotes

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.

Sooner or later usually means too late

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

What you don't know will hurt you.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.