Lasts Quotes - Page 121

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

Most of the gains in the last years since the Great Recession have gone to the very top. So we are going to have the wealthy pay their fair share. We're going to have corporations make a contribution greater than they are now to America.

The last time I actually drove a car myself was 1996.

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

This song goes out to Robin Williams. It's called 'Last Hope'.

Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.

I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."