If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path… this is what I must do, this is what I’ve got to have. This is who I am.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.
Young people don’t want to sit at home and watch television; they’d sooner be out doing their own thing.
People power is way more powerful than anything. The sooner everyone understands that, the better.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there’s a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
I believe in destiny. What has to come my way always does, sooner or later.
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn’t going to remain the same.
The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
Sooner or later, The Rock’s going to get tired of that empty space on his mantle where an Oscar should be, and that’s when I’ll get the phone call for the buddy movie that finally makes his career.
I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It’s short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
I look at my gorgeous girl and boy, with their incredible zest for life, and I count my undoubted blessings. But there’s no question about it: I wish I’d started my family sooner. Much much sooner.
In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility – and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.
Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process – a natural actor doesn’t need to.
It’s a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned – the sooner the better, I say.
I wish I’d gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
I’m a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there’ll be plenty of other animals, and they’ll be back.
The good thing about playing at home is that the crowd makes you feel that, sooner or later, you can win the game. We feel it on the pitch.
The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they’d like to is because they can’t afford to go without their salaries any longer.
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey’s end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
I wish I’d started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
Boomer Sooner!
When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.
We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: ‘What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?’
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
There’s a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.
Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people – in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is – the sooner it will stop.
I believe a band has to evolve rather than making the same album over and over again, because if you do, sooner or later people are going to get tired of you.
I want to learn how to stick around this league. I don’t think there’s a cheat code to it. But the sooner you find it out, the better you’ll be.
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
I don’t care tuppence whether I’m forced into a leadership position or not. I’d much sooner not.
We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.
Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I’m here in person to tell you it ain’t so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West – and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all.
In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I’d sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.
I know sooner or later I’ll lose.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.
As a native Oklahoman, I’m dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.
Man’s constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we’re going to continue to evolve.
There is a feeling among the Arabs – encouraging terrorist activity is part of the broad new Arab strategy – that sooner or later, Israel will be forced to withdraw from Samaria, Judea and Gaza.
