Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 27

• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  Barbara Cartland

  Beautiful, Women, Sleep

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• Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Water, Despair, Fool

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

  Tom Perrotta

  Suffering, Lasts, Loved Ones

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• Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Talking, Long

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Mind, Friendly

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• Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eagles, Pieces, Forks

  J. R. R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1982). “The Hobbit Or There and Back Again”, Del Rey

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• Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

  Bruce Coville

  Love, Sympathy, Heart

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• ... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Giving Up, Past, Giving

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.92, John Wiley & Sons

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• You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

  Stephen King

  Home, Back Home, Pay

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Faces, Moral Responsibility

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.122, Penguin

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• Oh, I'll trust you," the boy told him carelessly. "It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or later—all betrayed, or traitors." "I see that a flair for the dramatic runs in the blood," Magnus said under his breath.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Boys, Blood

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Long, Modern Life, London

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.10, Del Rey

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• I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Mean, Vanity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.156

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• I mean, I understand that Scrubs was my big break, but sooner or later you have to move on. I've already directed a movie, which received very good reviews, so it just seems much more important to me now. I feel that in order to better foster my creativity as an actor and director at this point, I need to be surrounded by other talented, artistic individuals, instead of just goofy comedians.

  Zach Braff

  Moving, Creativity, Mean

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• I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

  William S. Burroughs

  Circles, Design, Magic

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• "Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

  Stephen Hawking

  War, Independent, Space

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• It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

  Randal Cremer

  War, Fighting, Law

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• Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Light

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2072, Manonmani Publishers

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• Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

  Neil Young

  Song, Real, Strange

  Song: Walk On

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• We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Prayer, Abandon

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• If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Jobs, Soldier, Dies

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• There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Two, Free Will, Collide

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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• Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Firsts

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Humble, Pride, Forever

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• What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Writing, Long, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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