#sooner

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. ↗

— John Astin

#believe #better #better off #change #damaged

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#going #i #later #retire #sooner

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#book #dead #dry #dust #ended

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. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover. ↗

— Edwin A. Robinson

#begins #discover #knows #later #left

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

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

#dies #itself #kill #scandal #sooner

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

— John Ruskin

#english #get #incense #lightning #might

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

— Bertrand Russell

#fact #in fact #many #people #sooner

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