Sooner Quotes
|
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
|
More Sooner Quotes
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.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— September 21, 1747.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known asTip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.
George Bernard Shaw— Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, — and all it wants, — is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock and man began to contemplate redress.
thomas paine— Part 2.2 Introduction
The work . . . is steadily growing and spreading – especially in that most important department, native help. . . . The future hope of China doubtless lies in them. I look on all us foreign missionaries as platform work round a rising building; the sooner it can be dispensed with the better; or rather, the sooner it can be transferred to other places, to serve the same temporary purpose, the better for the work sufficiently forward to dispense with it, and the better for the places yet to be evangelized.
james hudson taylor— (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 373.)
I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.
mohamed elbaradei— Breaking the Cycle, An interview in the Cairo Times (23 October 2003)
Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there’s space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.
Tammara Webber— Where You Are, Chapter 1 (2011)
You may be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper!
— Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991).
sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. 134
william blake— 1790 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.
joseph pulitzer— c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
edward abbey— "The First Morning", p. 7
If there be one here tonight who believes that his rights will not sooner or later be taken from him by the avaricious American pale faces, his ignorance ought to excite pity, for he knows little of our common foe... Then listen to the voice of duty, of honor, of nature and of your endangered country. Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
tecumseh— Speech before a joint council of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations (1811)
I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.
mohamed elbaradei— Mohamed ElBaradei, Breaking the Cycle, An interview in the Cairo Times (23 October 2003)
Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls, And courts of princes.
john milton— John Milton, Comus (1637), line 322.
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.
muhammad reza pahlavi— As quoted in Jimmy Carter (1995), Keeping faith: memoirs of a president, page 444
Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.
herbert schiller— Chapter Three, Communication Today: What's New?, p. 94
We may have years, we may have hours, but sooner of later, we push up flowers.
— Tim Schafer, Grim Fandango (Quotes)
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
tallulah bankhead— Tallulah Bankhead, Tallulah: My Autobiography. University Press of Mississippi; illustrated edition edition (July 7, 2004).
You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
— Attributed to Ilya Ehrenburg by Patricia Blake in The New York Times Book Review, 22 October 1967, p. 1.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 8.
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
— Rosalind, Sc. iii
Just occasionally you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it bydegrees and inthemost natural way, but when you are right in the midst of it you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about. If, for example, you put to sea on a wooden raft with a parrot and five companions, it is inevitable that sooner or later you will wake up one morning out at sea, perhaps a little better rested than ordinarily, and begin to think about it.
— 1948 The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft across the South Seas (translated by F H Lyon).
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
— 1930 Vile Bodies, ch.6.
The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd,Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.
Alexander Pope— Lines 468-472.
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.
georg brandes— p. 11 (An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889))
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.
benjamin hoff— The Tao of Who?
Howbeit, Paul succeeded in stealing the image of Christ crucified for the figure-head of his Salvationist vessel, with its Adam posing as the natural man, its doctrine of original sin, and its damnation avoidable only by faith in the sacrifice of the cross. In fact, no sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
George Bernard Shaw— Preface, Paul.
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 2
Thus annihilation means, in the Buddhist philosophy , only a dispersion of matter , in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish i.e. change that shape. Therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent , it is but an illusion, Maya; for eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lighting.
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition, Madame Blavatsky's ..., p.62
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.
bertrand russell— Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity (1925), p. 166
