Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 26

• Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Joy, Finding Happiness, Tribulation

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

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• Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

  Susan Forward

  Emotional, Denial, Pressure

  "Toxic Parents". Book by Susan Forward, May 31, 2010.

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• If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Grief, Grieving, Would Be

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• No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

  Carol Bly

  Profound, Forever, Likes

  Carol Bly (2000). “My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories”, p.51, Milkweed Editions

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• It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Mistake, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Soul, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is the river flows into the canyon
  Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
  As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

  Robert Frost

  Rivers, Flow, Truth Is

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble.

  Stuart Wilde

  People, Giving, Focus

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.

  James Ussher

  Prayer, Thinking, Names

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• 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

  Grief, Flower, Losing A Loved One

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• It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

  Agatha Christie

  Love You, People, Suffering

  Agatha Christie (1952). “A Daughter's a Daughter”

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• Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

  George Orwell

  Years, Forever, Nineteen

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

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• Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Children, Men, Parent

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• Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Running, Long, Secret

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Reading, Character

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

  John Podesta

  Law, People, Answers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Party, Guarantees That

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Countries Of The World, Important

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

  Stephen King

  Order, Needs, Want

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• Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

  Stephen King

  Crazy, Years, Work Out

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• Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian. Well, they have their reasons, but sooner or later we will all be judged.

  Evo Morales

  African American, President, Different

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

  Arkady Volozh

  Technology, Russia, Depth

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• If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Others Opinions, Identity

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• Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Goodbye, Country, Song

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