But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.


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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.
If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Sooner or later you run out of tweaks,
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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
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Sooner or later, you'll get tired of chasing butterflies.
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Sooner or later, all games become serious.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner of later on...
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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
JULIAN S. HUXLEY
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
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...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA
It will definitely come here sooner or later.
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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct
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Sooner or later, it becomes a property tax issue.
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We must all face our demons sooner or later.
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One man on two boats, will fall into the water sooner or later.
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The seed that has been sown will sooner or later bring a harvest
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One of the laws of the universe is unintended consequences.
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if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.
LEE CHILD
We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.
LEE CHILD
Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that...
MAUREEN CHILD
I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
LEE CHILD
Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won...
LYDIA LEONARD
I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a dis...
LYDIA MILLET
Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry...
LYDIA LUNCH
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city ...
LYDIA MILLET
In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was po...
LYDIA MILLET
Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over w...
LYDIA MILLET
If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this,...
LYDIA DAVIS
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered ...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or ev...
LYDIA SIGOURNEY
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined...
LYDIA LUNCH
Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna...
LYDIA KO
For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victim...
LYDIA MILLET
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all ...
LYDIA LUNCH
The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympa...
LYDIA MILLET
I've never wanted a quiet life.
LYDIA CACHO
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need mu...
LYDIA LUNCH
In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen lopi...
LYDIA MILLET
I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small task...
LYDIA MILLET
I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'...
LYDIA LUNCH
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be ...
LYDIA LUNCH
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary m...
LYDIA DAVIS
When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
LYDIA MILLET
I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or a...
LYDIA KO
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic stud...
LYDIA MILLET
Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' st...
LYDIA MILLET
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would b...
LYDIA LUNCH