Lasts Quotes - Page 33

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

A consultant is only as good as their last project.

Lyrics are always the last thing to get done.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?