Lasts Quotes - Page 56

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.

In Tel Aviv the weekends last 48 hours. In Jerusalem they last 6 months.

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

The beggarly last doit.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.