#sooner

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#better #calamities #character #elasticity #escapes

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#enough #everybody #everything #happens #later

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#advantage #baseball #being #cricket #ended

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#beginning #doing #forced #guys #i

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#beyond #choir #i #looked #me

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. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#because #hate #i #i love #i love you

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody. ↗

— Dick Armey

#fools #later #make #politics #sooner

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#brain #energy #even #i #meaningful

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. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#affront #brilliantly #bush #capable #could

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. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#common #even #gay #gay marriage #going