Lasts Quotes - Page 116

Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.

If I'm halfway to the dream, at best, half of my resources are there. Your resources to fulfill the dream will come during the last step of the dream.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded it.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.