Top 100 Quotes About Sooner Or Later
#1. No matter how much we lie to ourselves about what a good person we are inside, sooner or later, we are all someone else's nightmare. Let us hope, for all our sakes, that history judges us with far kinder labels than what we've used to judge each other.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.
Ruth Graham
#3. Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.
Patricia Nell Warren
#4. Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.
Richard Powers
#5. Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth:
Arthur C. Clarke
#7. I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
Byron Katie
#8. Aidan said he'd never hurt me. Maybe he wouldn't do it on purpose, but vampires drink blood. Sooner or later, he'd want a midnight snack.
Jayde Scott
#9. Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
Flannery O'Connor
#10. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#11. My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#12. Becoming aware of fragility, of temporality, of the fact that we will surely all be lost to one another, sooner or later, mandates a clear imperative to be totally kind and loving to each other always [p.119].
Sylvia Boorstein
#13. It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Jonathan Carroll
#14. Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.
Rafael Yglesias
#15. For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ... We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or later it is beaten out of us, the glory faded, and by the age of seven most of us are nothing but wretched little adults.
Steven Millhauser
#16. Hell, we're all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you're a goddamn legend.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#17. It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.
Samantha Jacobey
#18. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.
Arnold Palmer
#19. If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
Dashiell Hammett
#20. Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
Alexander Cockburn
#21. Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
J.R. Moehringer
#22. Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.
Paddy Ashdown
#23. Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Ray Stannard Baker
#25. We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
Ferdinand Buisson
#26. I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
David Nalbandian
#27. Being single is hard, and it gets harder and harder every day. But sooner or later you'll be happy, independent, wise, strong and everything. Because you've learned lessons in a better way. In a harder way.
Sarvesh Jain
#28. Santayana ... reasoned that the young men who were being killed in the war would die anyhow sooner or later, and would be good for nothing while they lived.
Bertrand Russell
#29. You can either spend your money on real food, or you can start sending your local hospital a check every month, because sooner or later, that is where your money is going to end up.
T.C. Hale
#30. There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#31. Its hopeless. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. Theyll just do you in anyway. You cant depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#32. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.
Dean Goodman
#33. Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!
Roddy Piper
#34. I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
Alva Myrdal
#35. Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.
Carl Johan Calleman
#36. Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.
Douglas Coupland
#37. Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?
Billy Graham
#38. There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
Flora Lewis
#39. Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness.
The question becomes what to do with the pieces?
Michael Chabon
#40. The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.
Robert Harris
#41. Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
Margaret Atwood
#42. In the Forest,' comments Mr. Crawfford, 'ev'ryone comes 'round in a Circle sooner or later. One day, your foot comes down in your own shit. There, as the Indians say, is the first Step upon the Trail to Wisdom.
Thomas Pynchon
#43. When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.
Robert Fripp
#44. What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of.
David Eddings
#45. Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.
Michael Hainey
#46. Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.
Eleanor Perenyi
#47. You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
Maya Angelou
#48. The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#49. Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
C.S. Lewis
#50. Sooner or later, you've gotta sleep. Then I'll kill you." His laugh did not improve her mood at all.
Suzanne Wright
#51. Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
Anne Tyler
#52. The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent - or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#53. I'm not denying there's got to be a notion of right to get business done, but by God, any particular notion at any particular time will sooner or later get to be just like a stopper put tight in a bottle of water and thrown in a hot stove the way we kids used to do at school to hear the bang. The
Robert Penn Warren
#54. Sooner or later, you'll choose," he whispered. "You'll want one of us more than you don't want to hurt the other. And you'll choose. I want to be the one you can't live without.
Tiffany Snow
#55. Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.
Megan Whalen Turner
#56. Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience.
Tom Stoppard
#57. Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.
Lisa Wingate
#59. I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
Isabel Allende
#60. Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.
Rajneesh
#61. 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.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#62. The truth can't hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.
Kenneth Eade
#63. Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,
And tell me when it rains,
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins ...
'Cause your heart has a lack of color,
And we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later,
'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3
Owl City
#64. Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that.
J.D. Salinger
#65. You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
Gabrielle Zevin
#66. Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow.
Gregory Maguire
#67. Blessed are the wonderers with the courage to live into the questions. Seems to me that sooner or later, whether we like the outcome or not, theirs is the answer.
Sarah Bessey
#68. All of that pile on you so that, sooner or later, you cannot bear it anymore. And in that situation I started to write, because there was no other ways for me to express, except through the vicious cycle of words.
Herta Muller
#69. Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.
Wilferd Peterson
#70. Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.
Jim Butcher
#71. All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#72. [The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.
William Henry Jackson
#73. The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.
Criss Jami
#74. Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
Dennis Prager
#75. Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.
Niklaus Wirth
#76. I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.
Kinky Friedman
#77. Earthly life is a temporary phenomenon only", Jesus said thoughtfully. "Death comes sooner or later to all mortals. It is honour that is the eternal thing. I asked you not about your life, but about your honour and your good name.
Viktor Shel
#78. What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.
Peter Lynch
#79. We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
Charles Dickens
#80. I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.
Octavia St. Laurent
#81. If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
Lloyd Alexander
#82. Mankind has never invented a weapon that they did not use sooner or later.
Paullina Simons
#83. When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again.
Timothy B. Tyson
#84. Sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
Irvin D. Yalom
#85. What happens when two broken hearts meet? Then the road gets very bumpy, but sooner or later if the pieces fit then the broken pieces from each heart will mend the other one.
Faye Hall
#86. Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.
Francine Rivers
#87. There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of course when that time comes, in all probability, the credit will be given to vaccination.
John H. Tilden
#88. A man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.
Martha Ostenso
#89. My mother always said that if you predicted rain long enough, sooner or later you would get wet and be proven right.
Terry Goodkind
#90. Always dare to be in the company of those stronger than you. Sooner or later, you will be stronger than those who were once stronger than you, but unfortunately, they joined the company of those who are weaker than them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.
John Steinbeck
#92. Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Al Stewart
#93. Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.
Iyanla Vanzant
#94. I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
Omar Epps
#95. [L]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should deny the joy and pleasure afforded by the dishes already eaten.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#96. Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.
Joan Crawford
#97. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid
directly or indirectly
sooner or later they start to believe it.
Erin Gruwell
#98. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
#99. Sooner or later he'll see that it can't really work out. Werewolves and humans ... we've both got too much to lose. Sooner or later I'll have to leave him.
But for one day at a time, let it be tomorrow.
Terry Pratchett
#100. Sadly ... despair is with humanity and will affect all of us sooner or later. To accomplish the great things we were put on this earth to do ... we must all reach down deep inside of us and overcome it. There is no other way.
Timothy Pina
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