How Soon Quotes
39 quotes by 33 authors
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is…
— Lord Byron
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Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same…
— Thomas Adams
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The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
— William Arthur Ward
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How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a…
— J. William Fulbright
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I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain,…
— Stephen Sondheim
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You can figure out how bad a person you are by how soon after September 11th you masturbated, like how long you waited... and for…
— Louis C. K.
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Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was…
— Rene Dubos
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It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,…
— Mark Twain
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in…
— William James
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the…
— Walt Whitman
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How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never…
— Toni Morrison
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Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Watch it, minx," he warned with a lift of his brow. "If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
— Stephen Levine
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ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide…
— Richelle Mead
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How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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