Lasts Quotes - Page 18

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

You have to be loyal and true to one another, or your love will never last!

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 by an idiot mathematician.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.