Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 26

• If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Ifs

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.

  Bill Hybels

  Prayer, Fall, Writing

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

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• All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

  Anuj

  People, May, Knows

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• All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

  Robert Higgs

  Liberty, Horror, States

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• Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

  Susan Forward

  Emotional, Denial, Pressure

  "Toxic Parents". Book by Susan Forward, May 31, 2010.

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• If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Grief, Grieving, Would Be

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• China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Party, Guarantees That

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Countries Of The World, Important

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

  Henry Kirke White

  Christian, May, Fortitude

  Henry Kirke White (1824). “The prose remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, containing his letters, essays, and some account of his life”, p.117

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• We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.

  James Ussher

  Prayer, Thinking, Names

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• I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

  Ruth Graham

  Grief, Flower, Losing A Loved One

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• It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

  Agatha Christie

  Love You, People, Suffering

  Agatha Christie (1952). “A Daughter's a Daughter”

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• Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

  George Orwell

  Years, Forever, Nineteen

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

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• Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Children, Men, Parent

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• Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Running, Long, Secret

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

  Paul Gauguin

  People

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

  John Podesta

  Law, People, Answers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Work, Men

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• The truth is the river flows into the canyon
  Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
  As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

  Robert Frost

  Rivers, Flow, Truth Is

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Soul, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.

  Charlton Laird

  Children, Next, Generations

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• It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Mistake, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

  Samora Machel

  Discipline, Relaxation, Laziness

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

  Carol Bly

  Profound, Forever, Likes

  Carol Bly (2000). “My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories”, p.51, Milkweed Editions

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