#sooner or later

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. ↗

— Xun Zi

#come #could #desirable #detestable #fact

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#god #later #laws #men #never

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. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#clever #dormant #erupt #ingenious #later

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. ↗

— Theodore White

#away #being #bodies #break #cease

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit. ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#danger #going #hit #later #president

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

— Margaret Fuller

#demanded #great #later #life #price

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. ↗

— Evo Morales

#cannot #earth #human #human beings #humans

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. ↗

— James Payn

#communities #highly #invades #later #literature

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

— George Byron

#any #expect #find #gives #later

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later