Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 7

• If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Arrows, Target

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.191, Bantam

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• As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

  Stephen King

  Basketball, Optimistic, Player

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• For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.

  Kate Morton

  Light, Secret, Letters

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Attention

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• I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Night, People, Broken

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 5, 2004.

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• In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Confused, Confusion, Ego

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

  Jim Butcher

  Journey, Thinking, Jumping

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.256, Penguin

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• We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Thinking, Decision

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.

  Don Winslow

  Believe, People, Weak

  Don Winslow (2012). “Savages: A Novel”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.

  Gregory Maguire

  Growing Up, Home, Adventure

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• It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Hair, Rude

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• Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  People, Skins, Looks

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• Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

  Ned Rorem

  Real, Tolerance, Your Best Friend

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

  Julian Huxley

  Thinking, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  "Traveller's Library (Religion and Science: Old Wine in New Bottles)". Book edited by William Somerset Maugham, 1933.

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• People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, World, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Opportunity, Magic

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

  David Cronenberg

  Writing, Keys, People

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• Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Life, Pain, Philosophy

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• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Coffee, Dirty

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.

  Louis Sullivan

  Art, Healing, Inspire

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

  Stephen King

  Left Behind, Ill, Behinds

  Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.662, Simon and Schuster

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• We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Men, World

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 37 (The Gentleman in Blue)

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• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Lying, Men

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• Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.

  Bernard Baruch

  Strong, Money, New York

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