Lasts Quotes
9102 quotes by 5073 authors
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I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.
— Keith Moon
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We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
— Wynton Marsalis
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I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.
— Billy Eckstine
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Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.
— Diana Krall
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I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.
— Chuck Mangione
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I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in…
— Lewis Mumford
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Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
— Peter Krause
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If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but…
— Ralph Barton Perry
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A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single…
— Zack de la Rocha
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What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as…
— Barbara Deming
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The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become…
— Hassan II of Morocco
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
— Scilla Elworthy
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"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization…
— J. William Fulbright
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Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or…
— Philip Larkin
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On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?
— William J. Clinton
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Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people…
— Andrei Lankov
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