Sooner Quotes - page 3

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover. (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude. View quote
George Sarton
The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Sooner or later, all games become serious. View quote
J. G. Ballard
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. View quote
Colin Powell
What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day. View quote
Rob Ford
The SF created us to enjoy our suffering. ... The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans. View quote
Paul Erdős
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes. View quote
Madeleine Albright
Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties. (Samuel Johnson)
If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
What if everyone goes on the endless road Sooner or later Over the clouds to the sky Be sure to wait for me. And then, we will talk away About our countless memories. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth... View quote
Emil Cioran
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. View quote
Emil Cioran
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it. View quote
William Saroyan
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. View quote
Lindsey Graham
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction. View quote
Cyril Connolly
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own. (Jeanette Winterson)
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct. View quote
Julian Huxley
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple - you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned. View quote
Charles Spurgeon