#sooner

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

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#forced #i #into #leadership #much

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#always #decide #god #had #his

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

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#cannot #find #illness #later #obliged

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

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bad #common #common ground #confidence #disagree

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person. ↗

— Paul Weller

#aggressive #everyone #frustrated #gets #guitar

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#injury #insult #much #sooner #than

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. ↗

— Lord Acton

#centuries #down #fought #issue #later