In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
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?'
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
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.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.
If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
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.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
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.
I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.
The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day, and sooner or later, when they have been pilloried for their views, most of them recognise this.