Lasts Quotes

9102 Lasts quotes by 5073 unique authors

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars. — Brennan Manning
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic… — Lester Bangs
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the… — Billy Wilder
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of… — Eric Kandel
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of… — Og Mandino
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is,… — Peter Medawar
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner
You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain… — Lydia Davis
I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff. — Lasse Hallstrom
When you look at the last 20 years in the NBA, there have been seven teams that have won the NBA championship. Six of those… — Ted Leonsis
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the… — Rudolfo Anaya
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the… — Simon Bolivar
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated… — David Herbert Donald
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will… — Louis Malle
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world. — Joachim von Ribbentrop
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing… — Colleen McCullough
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen
The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next. — Daniel Silva
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the… — Sri Aurobindo
All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision. — Carl Schmitt
I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid… — Nat Turner
I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger,… — Jerry Rubin
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has… — Alexander Berkman
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker

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