“It's too late to start over, this is the only thing I know”
Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor
"Guts Over Fear" (2014)
2010s
“Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility,; especially when the choice comes too late in life for one to be able to start over again.”
— Ernest Becker, book The Denial of Death
"A General View of Mental Illness", p. 213
The Denial of Death (1973)
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Alan Simpson (1931) American politician
"Bigotry That Hurts Our Military" in The Washington Post (14 May 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301507.html. <br class="br">Context: As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review — and overturn — the ban on gay service in the military. I voted for "don't ask, don't tell." But much has changed since 1993.<br>My thinking shifted when I read that the military was firing translators because they are gay. According to the Government Accountability Office, more than 300 language experts have been fired under "don't ask, don't tell," including more than 50 who are fluent in Arabic. This when even Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently acknowledged the nation's "foreign language deficit" and how much our government needs Farsi and Arabic speakers. Is there a "straight" way to translate Arabic? Is there a "gay" Farsi? My God, we'd better start talking sense before it is too late. We need every able-bodied, smart patriot to help us win this war.
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
This quotation appeared in an article by Margaret Thatcher, "The Moral Foundations of Society" ( Imprimis, March 1995 https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-moral-foundations-of-society/), which was an edited version of a lecture Thatcher had given at Hillsdale College in November 1994. Here is the actual passage from Thatcher's article:<br><blockquote>[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything—security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.</blockquote><br>The italicized passage above originated with Thatcher. In characterizing the Athenians in the article she cited Sir Edward Gibbon, but she seems to have been paraphrasing statements in "Athens' Failure," a chapter of classicist Edith Hamilton's book The Echo of Greece (1957), pp. 47–48 http://www.ergo-sum.net/books/Hamilton_EchoOfGreece_pp.47-48.jpg). <br class="br">Misattributed
“It is better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.”
Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman
Managing, Chapter Ten (Acquisitions and Growth), p. 158.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non è mai troppo tardi per ricominciare, reinventarsi e realizzare un futuro come e con chi vuoi.
Source: prevale.net
Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer
Source: A Piece of My Heart (1976), p. 276