The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the…

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or…

— Mark Ronson

During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though…

— Wendell Berry

There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

— Buck Martinez

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the…

— Jean Liedloff

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started…

— Maria Bello

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a…

— Edith Head

We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September…

— George W. Bush

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

— Jules Renard

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

— Simen Agdestein

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

— Oliver Goldsmith

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…

— Wendell Berry

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no…

— Lucille Clifton