65 Overdue Quotes On Success In Life
These overdue quotes will inspire you. Overdue not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging overdue quotes, overdue sayings, and overdue proverbs.
Best Overdue Quotes
- “To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.” ~ Solomon Ortiz
- “More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.” ~ Dan Lipinski
- “This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.” ~ L. Neil Smith
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“Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.” ~ Elizabeth Vargas
- “Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.” ~ J. D. Hayworth
- “Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.” ~ Cathy Guisewite
- “Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen’s rights, but you’ll remain Jews nonetheless.” ~ Franz Grillparzer
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“The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it’s a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.” ~ E. P. Thompson
- “It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.” ~ Phyllis Schlafly
- “I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.” ~ Adam Yauch
- “Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don’t be impatient with God. He’ll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.” ~ David Jeremiah
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“We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.” ~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi
- “The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.” ~ Laurie Halse Anderson
- “Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read…This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel’s complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.” ~ Daniel Gordis
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“Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.” ~ Bill Vaughan
- “No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.” ~ Earl G. Graves, Sr.
- “To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don’t overdue the pink.” ~ Ruth Pitter
- “If you are a woman, if you’re a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women’s and gay men’s culture. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you’re worthless… For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.” ~ Margaret Cho
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“Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we’re way overdue for a lube and oil change.” ~ Daniel N. Robinson
- “Bill is about moving forward on a long overdue provision to protect vulnerable paid farm workers in Alberta to the same degree that they are protected in every other province in the country, and we feel confident that once people see how the bill actually applies to the regular family farm, they will see that a lot of the concerns were perhaps misplaced. And it’s unfortunate that we created a situation that made people worry; that was not ever our intention.” ~ Rachel Notley
- “Today is just to the beginning of a long and overdue national discussion on how to protect ourselves from modern cyber crime and evolving national security threats and how to develop the cyber offense strategies necessary to gain a critical security edge in the 21st century. We need the edge, and ideally, a big one.” ~ Donald Trump
- “This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue, and I think that the leading economies are very pragmatic and efficient in addressing the issues facing the European economy. That is why we keep approximately 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros.” ~ Vladimir Putin
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“There’s been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.” ~ Natalie Dormer
- “Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you’re just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don’t even remember what day it was.” ~ Bradford Cox
- “It’s just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented them from being brought to trial earlier. All of the people that they committed crimes against had their lives snuffed out, some of them at very young ages. Some of them never had a chance to get married and have children.” ~ Marvin Hier
- “There’s just too many people being bullied, too many people’s lives being wrecked. This is something that is long overdue. We all have gay and lesbian people in our families, and these are good people.” ~ Howard Stern
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“I feel like I’m long overdue for a “one for me” movie, so I’ve got two low-budget indy personal things I’m working on.” ~ Greg Mottola
- “Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you’ve got to careful and don’t overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.” ~ Willie Nelson
- “Macho in a different sense, the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn’t really exist right now. I really don’t want it to seem that I think it’s a problem that women are in development, I don’t think it’s as problem at all, I just think it’s an interesting time that we’re in. And maybe long overdue – maybe television for a long time was made for men and it’s long overdue.” ~ Edward Allen Bernero
- “Two factors explain our success. One, MIT’s renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.” ~ Paul Samuelson
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“The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.” ~ Susie Orbach
- “The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she’d misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.” ~ Sherman Alexie
- “I swallow any sort of apology. “screwing your neighbor.” There. Said it. React, okay? pregnant pause becomes three weeks overdue. Four weeks. Time for a C-section. What? Oh, Kaeleigh, I’m so sorry. Are you sure…?” ~ Ellen Hopkins
- “What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.” ~ Chinua Achebe
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“Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.” ~ Suzanne Collins
- “Wraith shoved his hands in his jeans’ pockets. “How long before we consider you overdue and mount a rescue party?” “Never.” Reaver shrugged into his shirt. “If I don’t come back, it is because I’m either dead or in a situation that’s too dangerous to get me out of.” “Oh,” Sin said brightly-and sarcastically. “You mean like the situation Harvester is in.” Seminus demons were annoying no matter what gender. “Yes. Like that.” She punched him lightly in the shoulder. “Good. Glad we’re clear. Try to come back soon or we’ll come after you.” ~ Larissa Ione
- “I think it [Danger] showed the unity between the spirituality and love I have for Big Pun. It was overdue and I think that was God’s plan. I didn’t get to create the magic with him in the studio, but it was still a blessing.” ~ Tony Sunshine , Overdue quotes love
- “The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.” ~ Philip K. Chapman
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“Two days overdue, THE WORLD’S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have “essential” and “long overdue” meetings on those days.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization’s war upon it.” ~ Stephanie Mills , Long overdue quotes
- “To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth” ~ Richelle Mead
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“Her new powers surging, she went to have a long overdue Come-to-Jesus talk with the goddess. (Tory)” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the ‘good order and discipline’ of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving…Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.” ~ Dave McGinnis
- “In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “I don’t have that many days left,” he said as we sat together in the library. “Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn’t come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.” ~ Jacqueline Kelly
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“I don’t blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it’s overdue.” ~ Ray Comfort
- “The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which the Lord has given. In this age of electronic media and mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.” ~ Ezra Taft Benson
- “The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.” ~ Seamus Heaney
- “… one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.” ~ Dean Koontz
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“Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.” ~ Stephen Elliott
- “To any honest observer, Zimbabwe’s sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue–to return its land to its people.” ~ Cynthia McKinney
- “America overflows with specious “victims” demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.” ~ George Will
- “I have a robust plan to help make quality child care more affordable. It will include an exclusion from taxes of the average amount paid for child care, including a long-overdue recognition of the contributions of parents who stay home to provide care.” ~ Donald Trump
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“Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.” ~ Will Cuppy
- “How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.” ~ D. James Kennedy
- “Héctor Tobar’s accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider’s vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.” ~ Stuart Dybek
- “The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long-overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.” ~ Arthur Miller
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“Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We’re long overdue.” ~ Sophie Jordan
- “So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.” ~ Louis de Bernieres
- “From the prophets’ dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today’s aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.” ~ David Saperstein
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“It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.” ~ Gareth Roberts
- “The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long-overdue victory for all disabled people.” ~ Michael Dukakis
- “I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana — if it’s prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.” ~ Abigail Van Buren
