Sooner Quotes
- Page 3All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Evelyn Waugh
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
John Tuley
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
Gail Sheehy
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard de Mandeville
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Doug Coupland
No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.
Frankie Avalon
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
Chris Hughes
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
Simon Travaglia
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Lamar Alexander
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Arnold J. Toynbee
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
Peter Maxwell Davies
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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.
Mitchell Reiss
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
Arthur Scargill
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.
Michael Zaslow
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Anthony Weiner
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Ray Stannard Baker
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
Jim Fowler
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child