Sooner Or Later Quotes - Page 27

• What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Writing, Long, Effort

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• This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Humble, Pride, Forever

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• We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Prayer, Abandon

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• If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Jobs, Soldier, Dies

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• Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Light

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2072, Manonmani Publishers

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• Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Spiritual, Religious, Father

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• Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

  Neil Young

  Song, Real, Strange

  Song: Walk On

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• We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.

  Lydia Davis

  Thinking, Affinity, Form

  Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.192, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Mind, Friendly

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• Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Water, Despair, Fool

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Firsts

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  Barbara Cartland

  Beautiful, Women, Sleep

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• It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Regret, Heart, Hands

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• There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Two, Free Will, Collide

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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• If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Faces, Moral Responsibility

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.122, Penguin

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• You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

  Stephen King

  Home, Back Home, Pay

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

  William S. Burroughs

  Circles, Design, Magic

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• Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

  Bruce Coville

  Love, Sympathy, Heart

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• It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Long, Modern Life, London

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.10, Del Rey

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• Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

  Jonathan Evison

  Taken, Thinking, Dust

  Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.221, Head of Zeus

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• Oh, I'll trust you," the boy told him carelessly. "It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or later—all betrayed, or traitors." "I see that a flair for the dramatic runs in the blood," Magnus said under his breath.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Boys, Blood

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Mean, Vanity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.156

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• But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Use, Matter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Born Of Silence: Number 5 in series”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

  Jim Butcher

  Waiting, Facts, Hideous

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.373, Penguin

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• You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Children, Stories, Orphan

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.259, Macmillan

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