Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 5

• The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.

  Chris Hayes

  Government, Political, Faults

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• I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Heart, Twelve

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

  James Chanos

  Simple, Dubai, Office

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• [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

  Cameras, Dimes, Earth

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• I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

  Scott Brooks

  Player, Matter, Able

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• 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

  Hate, Space, Here And There

  "Margaret Atwood: 'I have a big following among the biogeeks. "Finally! Someone understands us!"'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness......In all ages everywhere, the true children of a true mother 'rise up and call her blessed'; for they realize, sooner or later, that God gives no richer blessing to man than is found in a mother's love.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Mother, Children, Blessed

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• Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not only for economic exploitation, but also as possible homes for man. . . . The goal for the solar system would seem to be that it should become an interplanetary community of very diverse worlds . . . . Through the pooling of this wealth of experience, through this 'commonwealth of worlds,' new levels of mental and spiritual development should become possible, levels at present quite inconceivable to man.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Home, Men

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• How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Tree, Pruning, Stones

  sylvia townsend warner (1948). “mr. fortune's maggot”

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• The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, People, Ambitious

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• A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.

  Marcus Garvey

  Past, Race, Effort

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.48, The Majority Press

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• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

  Edgar Quinet

  Discovery, Wish, Orthodoxy

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.87

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• Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken -- He is our Father, and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Father, Men

  Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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• Recognize that it is not really possible to steadily help others when we ourselves are not in good physical, mental, or emotional state. We may be able to carry on for a while, but sooner or later we end up feeling depleted, discouraged, or weak. We cannot keep on giving when we are running on an empty tank. We need to be solid.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Running, Emotional

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• It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.

  Mathieu Demy

  Able, Digital, Pointless

  Source: collider.com

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• A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Brain, Matter, Causes

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• Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.

  Arthur Bryant

  Adversity, Sunshine, Wind

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• I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

  Randeep Hooda

  Roles, Dues

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• You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

  Leon Uris

  Lying, Typewriters, Self

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• In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

  Susan Neiman

  Plato, Effort, Enlightenment

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• The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Real, Independent, Community

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Heart, Bad Day, Golf

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• Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

  Dean Ornish

  Offering, Choices, Six

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2007). “The Spectrum: How to Customize a Way of Eating and Living Just Right for You and Your Family”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Dog, Men, Thinking

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• Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

  Michael Bassey

  Girl, Children, Men

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