Lasts Quotes - Page 53

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.