Lasts Quotes
9102 quotes by 5073 authors
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Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now,…
— Christie Hefner
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by…
— Adam Sedgwick
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To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told…
— Thomas Browne
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The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing…
— Al Gore
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As governor I have seen the tremendous changes over the last few years; the amount of land that we have lost, the trees that we…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
— Lester R. Brown
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No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last…
— Charles Babbage
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The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their…
— Paul Polman
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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
— John Masefield
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
— A. A. Gill
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A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems…
— Jonathon Porritt
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I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,…
— Gary Becker
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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.
— Mary Lou Retton
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is…
— Freya Stark
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But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.
— Robert Pyle
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To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out…
— Oprah Winfrey
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A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his…
— Thomas Adams
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of…
— Bernard Berenson
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Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing…
— Unknown Author
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