#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

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#act #afford #budgetary #choices #get

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 will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#discovered #election #eye #great #great man

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. ↗

— Glynis Johns

#british #good #i #majority #picture

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#because #business #go #going #idiot

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

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#associations #begin #change #change things #demonstrations

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#comfortable #comfortable life #find #fit #life

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

— Red Skelton

#about #find #make #married #married men