Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 12

• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Notebook, Baseball, Football

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• Those who are entitled to it get it sooner or later.

  George Ade

  Entitled

  George Ade (1985). “The Best of George Ade”

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• You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

  Bob Dylan

  Nice, People, Way

  Song: Foot of Pride

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• We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

  Georg Brandes

  Apology, Men, Thinking

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Mind, Let It Go

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

  Agatha Christie

  Giving, Failing, Conversation

  Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

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• Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Nature

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• One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

  Dora Russell

  Car, Principles, Needs

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• sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Humility, Needs, Lessons

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• Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

  Flora Lewis

  Truth, Trying, Substance

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• There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

  Flora Lewis

  Love Is, Long, Free Love

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Self, Effort, Together

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Educational, Octopus, Political

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

  Muriel Wace

  Horse, Regret, People

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• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stupid, Profound, Trying

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 31, 2011

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• It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

  Christopher Dawson

  Religious, Culture, Lost

  Christopher Dawson, Robert Royal (2009). “Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Spiritual, Real, Rain

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• When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

  Robert Fripp

  Kings, Play, Crimson

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• Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Political, Trying, Usual

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• Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

  Basil Bunting

  Islam, Culture, Anemia

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber

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• Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

  Joan Crawford

  Forever, Age, Lollipop

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, Mind, Function

  Edith Hamilton (2010). “The Greek Way”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• sooner or later I do what I want to do.

  Muriel Spark

  Want, Assertiveness

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• When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

  Brian Aldiss

  Parent, Illusion, Young

  Brian Wilson Aldiss (1985). “Helliconia Winter”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

  Madame de Stael

  Yoke, Bows, Rebellious

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