Lasts Quotes
9102 Lasts quotes by 5073 unique authors
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Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
— Allan Gurganus
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The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature…
— Frank O'Hara
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Embedded in the gospel of Jesus Christ there are eternal principles and truths that will last far longer than the principles of building ships and…
— L. Tom Perry
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Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.
— Hugh B. Brown
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I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before…
— Unknown Author
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Peace will not wipe out the memory of the massacres it has committed...And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of…
— John Pilger
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In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In…
— John Pilger
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The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only…
— Mother Teresa
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Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth,
— Pope Benedict XVI
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
— Gillian Flynn
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Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to…
— Claire Messud
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from…
— Bernard Cornwell
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last…
— Jack White
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Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may…
— John Holdren
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
— Plotinus
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The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was…
— Al Gore
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A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically…
— Saul Alinsky
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The classroom's the last room to get the truth.
— Zack de la Rocha
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I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do…
— Lata Mangeshkar
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There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As…
— Vasily Grossman
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