Lasts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
-- Aaron Levie -
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
-- Aaron Swartz -
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
-- Abel Ferrara -
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
-- Abhinav Bindra -
You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
-- Abraham Flexner -
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
-- Adam Braun -
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
-- Adam Duritz -
Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
-- Adam Grant -
I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?
-- Adam Levine -
Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
-- Adam Pascal -
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
-- Adi Shankara -
I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.
-- Adolf Hitler -
You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
-- Adolph Green -
As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
-- Adolph Green -
I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...
-- Adoniram Judson -
The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.
-- African Spir -
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
-- Agatha Christie -
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
-- Agnes Denes -
Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi -
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
-- Ajay Devgan -
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
-- Alain de Botton -
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
-- Alain Robert -
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,†says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
-- Alan Alda -
The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.
-- Alan Blinder -
Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.
-- Alan Brazil -
Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
-- Alan Colmes -
Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one.
-- Alan Coren -
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
-- Alan Jackson -
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
-- Alan Rickman -
It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.
-- Alan Rudolph -
There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it
-- Alan Sugar -
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
-- Alana Stewart -
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
-- Alasdair Gray -
Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
-- Albert Camus -
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
-- Albert Camus -
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
-- Albert Camus -
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
-- Albert Camus -
N'attendez pas le jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours. Do not wait for the last judgment. It happens every day.
-- Albert Camus -
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated
-- Albert Meltzer -
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
-- Alcaeus -
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I feel I'm in 2006 form to be honest. I hear a lot of comparisons to 2004, but I never changed. Last year was a struggle but I've worked hard. . . I'm not going back, I'm going forward.
-- Alecko Eskandarian -
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.
-- Alex Prager -
It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.
-- Alex Prager -
One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
The way something looks is the last thing we figure out
-- Alexander Isley -
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
-- Alexander Payne -
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
-- Alexander Pope -
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
-- Alexander Pope -
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
-- Alexander Pope -
Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.
-- Alexander Smith -
Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.
-- Alexis Denisof -
When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?
-- Alfie Kohn -
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.
-- Alice Barrett -
And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?
-- Alice Steinbach -
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
-- Alicia Machado -
Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.
-- Alison Croggon -
I've been with 'Days of Our Lives' for 21 years, and I've decided this year is going to be my last year.
-- Alison Sweeney -
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
-- Allan Gurganus -
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
-- Allison Pearson -
Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.
-- Ally Carter -
I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
-- Alona Tal -
Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.
-- Alton Brown -
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
-- Alvin Dark -
Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
-- Alvin Plantinga -
I have to say I'm very good on a bike. Maybe the last time I was 5 years old.
-- Alysia Reiner -
There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
-- Amadeo Bordiga -
Nothing lasts forever but we always try, and I just can't help but wonder why we let it pass us by
-- Amanda Marshall -
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.
-- America Ferrera -
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
-- Amy Bloom -
I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.
-- Amy Lee
