#sooner

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#behind #deadline #defeat #distance #every

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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#beaten #charismatic #crap #dean #ford

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. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#break #breaks #consistency #define #depressing

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' ↗

— John Tuley

#asserting #belief #demand #description #direction

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#any #day #dentist #fuss #go

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#injury #insult #much #sooner #than

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#backward #cannot #china #democracy #freedom

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#common #common sense #day #forced #give

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. ↗

— Colin Powell

#compromise #compromises #consensus #constitution #country

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#clamor #later #namely #novelty #public