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Lasts Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close…
- From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay…
- Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
- Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement…
- Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
- He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times…
- When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before…
- The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power…
- For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only…
More Lasts Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Fight to the last gasp. — William Shakespeare
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson