Lasts Quotes - Page 90

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.

The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.

I was really looking forward to doing the thing that I do - I basically appear just at the beginning and at the end of the 'The Glory of the World' play - but when I got to opening night, I started to get really sad that that was the last time I was going to see the play as a spectator without actually being in it.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.

The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.

I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.