Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
John Dryden

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
Ulrich Beck

We soon believe the things we would believe.
Ludovico Ariosto

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
Vita Sackville-West

Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
Bo Bennett

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Jacques Barzun

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
Hesiod

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Annie Dillard

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
Catherine Deneuve

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Liev Schreiber

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy Connors

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine of Hippo

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de Quincey

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott

The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
Nat King Cole

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten