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.

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

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

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.

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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

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.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

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.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.

Although charismatic James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Sooner or later we sell out for money.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

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

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us than them that love us more than we would have them do.

I love you and because I love you I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it 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.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul the director of his life.

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.

Young children were sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.