Quotes About Soon

#1. I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Greenspan

#2. Learn about money as soon as you can.

Austin Kleon

#3. If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell

#4. The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Abraham Kuyper

#5. Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us in the same way when we sing it.

David Levithan

#6. I'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.

Tatiana Maslany

#7. Do you like my name? he asked.
"yes, I do," I replied.
"Good, because one day soon, I want to give it to you.

Jenna Roads

#8. As long as your pen is moving, you are exploring. As soon as it stops, you are thinking. Danger zone!

Ellen Sandler

#9. Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.

John Brunner

#10. Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

David Hume

#11. The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.

Lalita Tademy

#12. There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

Peter Ackroyd

#13. When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.

Kiersten White

#14. We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#15. between the word and the world lie
fading eternities of soon

Laura Riding

#16. As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

#17. My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

Emily Carr

#18. Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Gustave Flaubert

#19. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Bobby McFerrin

#21. But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him.

Juliet Marillier

#22. Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

Anna Lee

#23. There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

Lou Doillon

#24. I slipped my hands down his back and into his boxers. "I hope this gets old soon. I don't see myself ever getting tired of you."
"Promise?" he asked, smiling.

Jamie McGuire

#25. Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

Edward Young

#26. Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon.

Cherise Sinclair

#27. I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Brendan Coyle

#28. I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.

Martin McGuinness

#29. But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom

Lisa See

#30. I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

Viktor E. Frankl

#31. King! Did you hear that? What did I say? The hands of a healer, I said.' And soon the word had gone out from the House that the king was indeed come among them, and after war he brought healing; and the news ran through the City.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

#33. It is thus with our life. We silently glide along, little dreaming about the waves which will so soon sweep over us, dashing us up against the rocks, or stranding us forever. we do not dream that we shall ever wreck, until the greater wave comes over us, and we bend beneath its power.

Fanny Kelly

#34. Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

Peter Ackroyd

#35. We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.

Edward Snowden

#36. All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.

Nathalie M. Leblanc

#37. You come into this world alone, and you go out of it alone. As soon as you make peace with that, the sooner you learn there's no point being afraid.

Caroline Mitchell

#38. There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment
anywhere.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#39. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

Rick Cook

#40. This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#41. Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

Dave Barry

#42. He hadn't treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and someday some boy would have it for me. I hadn't found it yet, but I would find it soon.

Aspen Matis

#43. Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Simon Raven

#44. With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.

Robert Musil

#45. Whatever we do, don't let's have any running. Especially not before supper; and not too soon after it neither.

C.S. Lewis

#46. I am not addicted to reading, I can quit as soon as I read one more chapter ...

Google

#47. There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

Robert A. Heinlein

#48. I've played the song for a lot of people who respond, 'Hmmmm, this is interesting,' but in a way it's more like 'There are two exits in this room, the window and the door. If this song doesn't end soon, I'm going to opt for the window.

Rob Sheffield

#49. I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

Dean Cain

#50. It felt like a cemetery, but I didn't see myself returning to visit any time soon.

Trish Marie Dawson

#51. When the legs go, the heart soon follows

John Wooden

#52. In a dark and tumultuous place, know the storm will soon pass.

Lorna Jackie Wilson

#53. It was worth it as soon as I saw you'.

Alessandra Torre

#54. The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.

Salvador De Madariaga

#55. As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

Hunter Parrish

#56. Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.

Angela Carter

#57. I hope it snows soon. Christmas is so much more magical with snow.

Anonymous

#58. If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

#59. As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

Martha Beck

#60. I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.

Bill Cunningham

#61. I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

Jane Hirshfield

#62. As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Annie Dillard

#63. And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

John Betjeman

#64. To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#65. Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#66. Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

Therese Of Lisieux

#67. Soon there would be a final morning, a final afternoon, a final sunrise. She measured her life by these thoughts and then reprimanded herself for not simply enjoying such pleasures while she still could.

Alastair Reynolds

#68. The new millennium won't be about sexual labels; it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or women. It'll be about sleeping with individuals. Soon everyone will be pansexual. It won't matter if you're gay or straight.

Kim Cattrall

#69. My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

Alfred Nobel

#70. There was a time when obesity was the losing battle our people faced. Not so anymore. As soon as food became scarce, curves became coveted.

Laura Thalassa

#71. The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon
it would lie outside the experience of all living men.

Arthur C. Clarke

#72. I think of kids. It makes me feel selfish, to be so wary of having a family. Never mind do I have a job or not. I'll have a job soon, a good one. That's not it. I'm in awe of raising, basically, someone so tiny and soft.

Don DeLillo

#73. The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race.

Edward Gibbon

#74. Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.

James Richardson

#75. I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.

Irvine Welsh

#76. Dogs are the kids we've always wanted. They're totally devoted and want to live with you until they die. Not like children who can't wait to take off as soon as they grow up and don't need you anymore.

Jonathan Carroll

#77. I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

Sam Raimi

#78. There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Cynthia Kenyon

#79. But honesty is not always the best policy, no matter what the Boy Scouts may tell you. So I just shook my head at his inane question. "Too soon to tell," I said.

Jeff Lindsay

#80. I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Magdalena Neuner

#81. If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Erica Jong

#82. Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

D. Elton Trueblood

#83. For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.

R. Scott Bakker

#84. As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Max Cannon

#85. Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

Emily Dickinson

#86. Like how could you do nothing,
and say, 'I'm doing my best.'
How could you take almost everything,
and then come back for the rest?
How could you beg me to stay,
reach out your hands and plead,
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as I agreed?

Ani DiFranco

#87. Homo sentimentalis [ ... ] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.

Milan Kundera

#88. Do I worry about overly retouching photos giving women unrealistic expectations and body image issues? I do. I think that we will soon see a rise in anorexia in women over seventy. Because only people over 70 are fooled by photoshop.

Tina Fey

#89. As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

Natasha Bedingfield

#90. I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

Rashid Johnson

#91. As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.

Jeanne Moreau

#92. Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

Iain Banks

#93. As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

Clinton Sparks

#94. The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

Voltaire

#95. As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

George Carlin

#96. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#97. Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

Sojourner Truth

#98. Perry, I've wanted you since the moment I saw you. I'm not going to stop showing you off or rubbing it in to everyone I know, anytime soon ... You're mine. And you're mine alone. From now until the end of time.

Karina Halle

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

Wong Kar-Wai

#100. The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

George Jessel