Reply #5: Credit to the writer

[bain_sidhe]

I didn't vote, because I can't decide if it's "too late" or not... but I thought I'd note that the quotation is from the great television series, Babylon 5 (and I suspect was written by J. Michael Straczynski). Since the T.V. and Motion Picture writers are about to go on strike, it seems appropriate to give credit where it's due!

The actual quote is a smidge different (from my file of "favorite quotes"):

The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
-- Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5, Believers

There are many, many quotes from Babylon 5 in that file! A couple of my faves (besides the one above) that seem particularly appropriate to the OP:

We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.
--G'Kar "Objects in Motion"

And

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.
--G'Kar, Babylon 5, Season 3 ending in Z'ha'dum"