#sooner

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#bad #bad government #becomes #government #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

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

— Benjamin Rush

#dies #itself #kill #scandal #sooner

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#drop #everybody #illusions #later #luggage

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

#astounding #deeds #game #later #life

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

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#apartheid #brings #countries #destruction #economic

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#later #sooner #sooner or later #think #those