Lasts Quotes - Page 24

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

The most beautiful thing in the world is to live each second as if it were your last.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.

We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.