Lasts Quotes - Page 100

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.

The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

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 and live, cannot be made but only received.

I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.