Sooner Quotes

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

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.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

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.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

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.

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.