Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 19

• I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Adversity, Giving, Growth

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

  Erin Gruwell

  Stupid, Believe, Kids

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Growing Up, Book, Mean

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• I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

  Peter Matthiessen (1992). “African Silences”, Vintage

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• Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

  Steve Kluger

  Life, Giving Up, Believe

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.268, Penguin

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• I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Memories, Mistake, Leaving

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.46, Profile Books

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• Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

  Brian Jacques

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Angel's Command”, p.58, Penguin

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• Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Decision, Religion, Way

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.13, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Pain, Party

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• A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Expectations, Words Of Wisdom, Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

  Andrew Clements

  Lying, Reality, Blood

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• When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cows, Helping, Butchers

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.224, Macmillan

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• My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Eye, Cutting, Feet

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• Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.

  Janet Evanovich

  People, Three, Truck

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hate, Heart, Fate

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• Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Giving, Be Careful

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Mother, Dream, Loneliness

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• Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

  Alice Munro

  Peace, Kindness, Moments

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jan 11, 2011

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• All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, Stars, Revenge

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.423, Anchor

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• Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.

  Cameron Dokey

  Needs, Accepted, Thrive

  Cameron Dokey (2009). “Winter's Child”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

  Primo Levi

  Later In Life, Perfect, Joy

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Errors, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

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• To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Mean, Loss

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• She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning.

  Tamora Pierce

  Forever, Asking, Answers

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.50, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.

  Lionel Shriver

  Hero, Responsibility, Heart

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