Quotes about last

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“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”

“I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!"
"Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!"
"Bah, your brain isn't on board!”

“Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”

“And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.”

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

(, 8 September 1935)”

“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.”

“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne

"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

“Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.”

“A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?”

“Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?”

“The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.”

“You can choose to be free, but it's last decision you'll ever make”

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”

“He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.”

“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

“Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”

“Stop running, you fools!" Kronos yelled. "Stand and ACKK!"
That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of him. The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt.”

“To my wonderful readers. Sorry about that apology for that last cliffhanger. I’ll try to avoid cliffhangers in this book. Well, except for maybe a few small ones… because I love you guys.”

“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”

“Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”

“We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.”

“I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.”

“Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.”

“In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.”

“We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there’ll always be a part of me that’s part of you. No matter what.”

“At last, the wheel comes full circle”

“If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.”

“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”

“If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.”

“Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?”

“Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.”

“Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.”

“Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.”

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

“She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.”

“Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.”

“We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I’m secure in my sexuality.”

“When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”

“I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)”

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”

“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”

“My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.”

“Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it… And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.”

“Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!”

“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”

“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”

“I tried to pick Nykyrian’s pocket last year. (Jana)
And you let him live? (Kiara)
I have an age requirement before I kill someone. (Nykyrian)”

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

“So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”

“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”

“But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.”

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

“In the pool, on that last night of the last summer, we said we’d always come back. It’s scary how easy promises were broken. Just like that.”

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

“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”

“Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”

“People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.”

“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”

“It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.”

“For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.”

“I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance.”

“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”

“Love can touch us one time
And last for a life time
And never let go till
We're gone.”

“I saw thousands of pumpkins last night
come floating in on the tide,
bumping up against the rocks and
rolling up on the beaches;
it must be Halloween in the sea”

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”

“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”

“it was going to be all right.
at last.
for a while.”

“Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels”

“Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.”

“The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're… NO… LADY… CYCLOPES!”

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.”

“In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence”

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”

“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”

“Love is eternal while it lasts.”

“The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.”

“You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.'
And why is that, Percy Jackson?'
Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.”

“No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.”

“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

“Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!”

“My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.”

“The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.”

“I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.”

“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?”

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”

“Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”

“Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates… When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?”

“Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.”

“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”

“Last Minute:
I have to buy all my presents at the last minute, she said, or I get too excited & just give them away.”

“Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.”

“What’s your name?”
“What do you want it to be?”
“Are you a vampire?”
“Not the last time I checked.”

“Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on.”