Lasts Quotes

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

First and last follow each other.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

One thing about the past. It's likely to last.

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

You know, last night it was so cold that my pillow and my sheets fought to see who got under the blankets first.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

Jesus came for the least, the lost, and the last.

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.

The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)