Lasts Quotes

9102 Lasts quotes by 5073 unique authors

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. — Joseph Fort Newton
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we… — Dinaw Mengestu
My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize. — Ansel Adams
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are… — Bernard of Clairvaux
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Small service is true service, while it lasts. — William Wordsworth
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last… — Northrop Frye
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it… — Gloria Steinem
Our history is an aggregate of last moments — Thomas Pynchon
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty.… — Ishmael Reed
What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.' — Edward Abbey
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our… — Edward Abbey
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. — Edward Abbey
Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach… — Edward Abbey
Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff. — Edward Abbey
The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts. — Edward Abbey
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. — Edward Abbey
Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express. — Zadie Smith
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country… — Eddy Arnold
Without God, liberty will not last. — Thomas Jefferson
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all… — Thomas Jefferson
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall… — Benjamin Franklin
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and… — Ray Bradbury
Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts. — Woody Allen
Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another… — Sigmund Freud

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