S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth”
Source: The writings of a savage
“Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are.”
Source: The Secret Life of Insects
“Sooner or later sin and rectitude claims a person”
“Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sooner or later the average child comes to feel that, the fewer questions he asks, the more of a man he will be; and so he represses his impulse to inquire into the nature and purpose and meaning of that which newly interests him until, perhaps, he is no longer curious concerning that which he does not understand, or is hopeless of any satisfaction being given to him concerning the many problems which perplex his wondering mind. By the time he has reached young manhood, he who was full of questions in order that he might have knowledge, seems to be willing to live and die in ignorance, rather than to make a spectacle of himself by multiplying questions that may be an annoyance to others, or that may be deemed a source of discredit to himself.”
Source: Hints on Child Training
“Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.”
“Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.”
Source: Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
“Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.”
“Sooner or later the rain stops and the sun rises again.”
“Sooner or later the time comes for almost everybody when, although he has sworn to himself he will never utter such sentiments, he declares that the country is going to the dogs, that life has become louder, public manners cruder, and art totally incomprehensible. When, he asks himself, will it all end?”
Source: Resident Alien: The New York Diaries
“sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.”
“Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.”
“Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.”
Source: God's Men: A Novel
“Sooner or later there will always be a cost for "Free Stuff”
“Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.”
“Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, it is common, and they don’t even notice.”
“Sooner or later usually means too late”
Source: Extras
“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”
“Sooner or later, we all go through a crucible. I'm guessing your's was that island. Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible: the ones who grow stronger from the experience and survive it, and the ones who die. But there's a third type: the ones who learn to love the fire. They chose to stay in their crucible because it's easier to embrace the pain when it's all you know anymore,”
“Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched.”
“Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.”
“Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.”
“Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.”
“Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.”
Source: Lyrics
“Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.”
Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting
“Sooner or later we must leave our dream world and face up to the facts of God, sin, and judgment. The Bible says, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” [Romans 3:23 NIV].”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.”
“Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.”
“Sooner or later we'll be looking back on everything and we'll laugh about it like we knew what all was happening”
“Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.”
Source: Jingo: Stage Adaptation
“Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.”
“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
Source: Deception Point
“Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.”
“Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.”
Source: The front runner
“Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down”
“SOONER OR LATER YOU'LL BE MY HATER”
“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”
Source: Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood
“Sooner or later you must start having a big picture of what your ultimate desire is and how much of that desire is sex truly fulfilling. Having a big picture will unlock mysteries you don’t even know exist yet. In a world that loves breadth, I challenge you to go for depth.”
“Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Because when your performances get his attention, well, then you've got his attention, and do you actually want all that attention? It's exhausting.”
Source: Hestia Strikes a Match
“Sooner or later, you will die. And I will not mourn you. I will look at the flames consuming your body, and I will rejoice.”
Source: Clytemnestra
“Sooner or later, you will have to decide. Whether you want to drift with the current or whether you want to lay down your own path. Trust me, nobody in this world really knows where he is headed. Yes, of course, you will find people who say that they know how to live their lives. But even they can’t answer where their lives would lead. So, decide! What is more important to you? How? Where? Or why?”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“Sooner or later you will meet the person you are busy becoming and you'll either be celebrating or regretting base on the choices you making today.”
“Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you:
stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.”
“Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“Sooner or later your fingers close on that one moist-cold spud that the spade has accidentally sliced clean through, shining wetly white and giving off the most unearthly of earthly aromas. It's the smell of fresh soil in the spring, but fresh soil somehow distilled or improved upon, as if that wild, primordial scene has been refined and bottled: eau de pomme de terre. You can smell the cold inhuman earth in it, but there's the cozy kitchen to, for the smell of potatoes is, at least by now, to us, the smell of comfort itself, a smell as blankly welcoming as spud flesh, a whiteness that takes up memories and sentiments as easily as flavors. To smell a raw potato is to stand on the very threshold of the domestic and the wild. (241)”
Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
“Sooner or later,
wittingly or unwittingly,
we must pay
for every intrusion
on the natural environment.”
Source: science and survival
“Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.”