Lasts Quotes

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

You're only as good as your last story.

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

The most terrible things end, at last.

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

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I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

When was the last good kiss you had?

In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.