Lasts Quotes - Page 43

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

Why is it better to last than to burn?

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000.

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time." "That accident was not my fault." "You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.

No blessing lasts forever.

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.

The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in because you can't solve the problem. Violence is always the last solution, but unfortunately, in cinema, it's the first solution, because it's easy. And it's often too easy.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.