Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 14

• thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  World, Worried, Turns

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Dec 28, 2016

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• 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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• 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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• A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

  Spike Lee

  Women, Want, Figures

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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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• You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Looks, Weak Spots, Enough

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• The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Honesty, Law, Gold

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.

  Rob Ford

  Heart, Swimming, Sharks

  Remarks on cyclist, bicycling.com, May 3, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

  Calvin Trillin

  Hard Work, Ideas, Degenerates

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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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• Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one.

  Francois Ozon

  Writing, Awards, Hemorrhoids

  "Swimming Pool". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

  Dean Koontz

  Memories, Goes On, Way

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

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• As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.

  Haruki Murakami

  Long, Ends, Changed

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 24, 2013

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• The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

  John Piper

  Real, One Day, Answers

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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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• Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Wisdom, Doubt, Religion

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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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• Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

  Ordway Tead

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.

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• Since we must all die sooner or later, let us enjoy life while we can!

  Otomo no Tabito

  Enjoy Life, Enjoy, Dies

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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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• If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Strong, Cat, Animal

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• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Once Upon A Time, Machines

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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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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