Belated Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

I did not come to NASA to make history. — Sally Ride

If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation. — Vladimir Nabokov

She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick. She looked hot and tired and surprisingly happy. He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn't the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last. — Betty Neels

Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears. — Auliq Ice

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

My mouth had sought his, and his had grown as eager as mine. There was no fairy-tale music, but there was something there. And it had quickly hardened against my thigh. — Alice Clayton