Lasts Quotes

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

I'll come back to you," I say, "If it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

A batsman goes out and is then in until he gets out. This goes on until the last batsman is out, apart from one who is still in and therefore not out.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

Every generation wants to be the last.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

I can't remember the last day I didn't train.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Hunting is the last perfect thing.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every minute of it.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.