Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

  Ed Seykota

  Mother, Loss, Ifs

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• Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Sheep, Government

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• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  Xunzi

  Time, Men, Facts

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• I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Believe, Forever

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• The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Mother, Hands, Finding Yourself

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• Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.

  Katrina Kaif

  Love, Waste, Wasting Time

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• In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Science, Judgement, Literature

  Caxtoniana 'Readers and Writers'

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• Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Communication, Doe, Lines

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• I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of a professional, without first completing their chess studies. Deficiencies in education and a lack of certain basic knowledge will tell sooner or later; they will bump their head on the ceiling and will no longer be able to climb up to the stars.

  Sergei Shipov

  Stars, Player, Chess

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• I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.

  Charlie Munger

  Smart

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• Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!

  Roddy Piper

  Wwe, Pay, Pipers

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• Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Orthodoxy, Optional

  Richard John Neuhaus (2001). “The Best of "The Public Square".: Book two”, p.1, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• My ma told me that there isn't anything in this life worth having that comes easy. She told me that every road I walk down's gonna have a price. But what she didn't tell me and what I learned since I've been here is that if you don't choose the road you're gonna walk, sooner or later someone else'll do that choosing for you.

  Victoria Forester

  Easy, This Life, Walks

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• The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

  Arthur Bloch

  Years, Giants, Onions

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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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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• A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Style, Would Be, Behind You

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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