A Quote by David Gerrold

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

David Gerrold

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Almost Always Dangerous Right Soon Too

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David Gerrold
American - Novelist
Born: January 24, 1944

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

Lawrence Durrell

Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.

Joan Bauer

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Gregory Nunn

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

Wong Kar-wai

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

Meg Greenfield

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

Igor Stravinsky

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

George W. Romney

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

Ferdinand de Saussure

I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.

Alice Cooper

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

Michael Morpurgo

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

Tom Harkin

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

Robert M. Hutchins

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

Linus Torvalds

When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.