Lasts Quotes

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

Life is an illusion that last too little.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.

Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Things last so much longer than people.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!

All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

To have to introduce a new product at the worst economic time in the last 50 years probably wasn't the greatest thing to have happened.

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.