When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Willem de Kooning

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Will Durant

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
Muhammad Yunus

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
Jack Paar

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
Bill Watterson

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian

I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.
Yoko Ono

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley