Last Minute Quotes

“Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?”
― Anthony Liccione

“Last-minute effort does not make up for years of neglect.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“To be fair, no one yet had complained of the dinner. Since the uncommon hour made it too late for breakfast and still a few hours too early for dinner, it had been a scramble for Violet to make them a meal on short notice. She'd curdled some cream with sweet wine and a grating of cinnamon, serving it warm to the table, and thickened the porridge of Indian meal they had eaten at breakfast and fried it in cakes drizzled thick with molasses, brought pickle and cheese from the cellar and rounded it off with two pies of the first apples picked from their orchard, still fresh from her baking of yesterday.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Bellewether

“Holding out was a quirk in human nature and those who lived in the Last Minute had found not only was there no penalty in lateness but often a bonus not granted the timely.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness