Lasts Quotes - Page 82

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.

Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

Having the last name Kalitta didn't make me a racer, but it definitely makes me want to be a winner.

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things." "Doesn't God put a price on things?" "No. One of his attributes is magnanimity. But the Devil is a setter of prices, and a usurer, as well. You buy from him at an agreed price, but the payments are all on time, and the interest is charged on the whole of the principal, right up to the last payment, however much of the principal you think you have paid off in the meantime.

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

Oh, how we need general conference! Through conferences our faith is fortified and our testimonies deepened. And when we are converted, we strengthen each other to stand strong amid the fiery darts of these last days.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.