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Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make…

— David O. Russell

At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call…

— Michelle Malkin

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

— George Bernard Shaw

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

— Cornel West

Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me…

— Ally Carter

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,…

— Orlando Gibbons

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

— James Robertson

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad…

— Anonymous

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see…

— Kenneth More

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then…

— Saul Bellow

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and…

— Lamar Hunt

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to…

— Zygmunt Bauman

You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with…

— Amy Poehler

John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke.

— Jay Leno

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

— Betty Hutton

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

— Jonathan Swift

Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

— Ian Maclaren

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

— Giada De Laurentiis

I want to be better every year, just like everyone else does. From what I learned from last year, I feel a…

— Ryan Zimmerman

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring…

— Anonymous

You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.

— Andre Ward

He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer]…

— Peter L. Berger

It's important to at least break through many of the conventional approaches. I'm not sure my way is better. I will say…

— Stan Shih

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I…

— John Dryden

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

— Phyllis Diller

At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she…

— Kristin Cashore

At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with…

— Suzanne Collins

What the U.S. does is it continues to print money when the economic situation gets difficult. This is what happened in the…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It…

— Poppy Z. Brite

The first day ofschool was always so exciting because you get new shoes and a new backpack, but by the last day…

— Meaghan Martin

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

— Geoffrey Fisher

The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement.…

— Anonymous

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

— Phil Collins

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes,…

— Indira Gandhi