Lauren Kate Quotes

When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

You may delay, but time will not.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

I hate it when people are late, and I hate being late.

Better late than never.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

I don’t like people who are late.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

You only have but so much time to make an impact or people will forget you. My goal always is to make the biggest impact possible.