Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 18

• ...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

  Graham Greene

  Monologues, Discussion

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

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• It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Aunt, Use, Jeeves

  The Code of the Woosters (1938) ch. 2

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• The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspiration, Common Sense, Liberty

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

  Melody Beattie

  Thinking, People, Found

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• Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Home, Heart

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Matter, Doe, Prozac Nation

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Pain, Enormous, Bother

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

  Julian Barnes

  Taken, Fire, Two

  Julian Barnes (2013). “Levels of Life”, p.67, Random House

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• There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

  Mark Twain

  People, Age, Violent

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• Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

  J. G. Ballard

  Television, Turns

  "Talking Out of Turn #34: JG Ballard". Interview with Kevin Courrier, www.criticsatlarge.ca. 1987.

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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  Carlos Santana

  Baggage, Illusion, Luggage

  "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Wall, Welfare, Projects

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• Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

  Lech Walesa

  Clever, Volcanoes, People

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• If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

  Lewis Carroll

  Poison, Wonderland, Bottles

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.16, Branden Books

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• Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Father, Book

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• Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Color, Say Anything

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

  Robert Collier

  Challenges, Future Happiness, Happiness And Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Smart, Inevitable

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.266, Penguin UK

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• Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.” “Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Ocean, Looks

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

  Nick Cave

  Darling, Dine, Cannibal

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• I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Race, Hands

  Source: portside.org

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• Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

  Dennis Prager

  Writing, Speak, Inappropriate

  "A Letter to Young Voters" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 17, 2012.

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• When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

  Steven Pressfield

  Book, Acquaintance

  Source: goinswriter.com

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• Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

  Paul Murray

  Crush, Expectations, Grace

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• An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Germs, Cold

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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