Sooner Quotes

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

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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 that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

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.

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.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

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.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.