Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Stupid, Believe, Kids

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Writing, Men

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.

  Og Mandino

  Love Is, Giving, Miracle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?”, p.232, Bantam

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• There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Boys, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.30, Vintage

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• To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Mean, Loss

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• She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning.

  Tamora Pierce

  Forever, Asking, Answers

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.50, Scholastic Inc.

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• You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Children, Teenager

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

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• Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.

  Steve Kluger

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Roots, Why Not, Weapons

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.658, Penguin

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• You really are here. (Thanatos) Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it’s your turn. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Baby, Hair

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.307, Macmillan

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• For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

  George Orwell

  Running, Ignorance, Thinking

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

  Ernest Starling

  Ambition, Knowledge, Science

  Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”

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• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny Inspirational, Mistake, Creativity

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• In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

  William Ralph Inge

  Revenge, Independence, Revolution

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

  Robert Collier

  Challenges, Future Happiness, Happiness And Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Couple, Believe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 82, 1799.

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• [Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.

  Linus Pauling

  Dna, Ideas, Feelings

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• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

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• This 3HO shall be the most important legacy on this planet for the Age of Aquarius. Sooner or later people will experience a tremendous amount of emptiness which always brings a void. A void brings unhappiness. Then people will want to find a place where they can be healthy, happy, and holy.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Aquarius, People, Healthy

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• 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

  Attachment, Shadow, Flow

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• Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Men, Self

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

  Susan Sontag

  Get Well Soon, Health, Sick

  New York Review of Books 26 Jan. 1978

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• Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.

  Anne Tyler

  Pain

  Anne Tyler, Monica McInerney (2012). “The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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• Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

  Andy Rooney

  War, People, World

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• This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sound, Opinion, Honest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

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