Quotes about last
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“Trust in God is the last station on the Divine Path for nothing remains to be attained through mystical efforts after having experienced spiritual satisfaction.”

Abu Nasr as-Sarraj

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 83

God , Effort
Donald J. Trump photo

“You can take the number of cases and look we're last, meaning we're first.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Trump was explaining the virus situation, as quoted by * James Walker
2020-08-03
5 Takeaways From Trump's Axios Interview
Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/five-takeaways-donald-trump-axios-interview-1522596
2020s, 2020, August

Maximilien Robespierre photo

“Death, always Death! And the wretches cast it upon me. What a memory I shall leave behind if this lasts. Life is a burden to me.”

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

SOURCE https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pA4LF2gD61sC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=%E2%80%9CWhat+a+memory+I+shall+leave+behind+me+if+this+lasts!%E2%80%9D+robespierre&source=bl&ots=H7X80hMmtp&sig=ACfU3U0gG5lHCy5wZrS4cArBVcEFLBhyjQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVjpKnvvPyAhValEsFHS7xABkQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CWhat%20a%20memory%20I%20shall%20leave%20behind%20me%20if%20this%20lasts!%E2%80%9D%20robespierre&f=false
Misc Quotes

Memory , Life , Death
Robert Kocharyan photo

“An unduly unfair peace cannot be lasting and sustainable. I want to end this conflict, and we must find a solution which which will be fair.”

Robert Kocharyan (1954) second President of Armenia

As quoted in an 2021 interview with Vladimir Pozner in "Robert Kocharyan: An unfair peace can not be lasting and sustainable" in Hyetert.org (6 April 2021) https://hyetert.org/2021/04/06/robert-kocharyan-an-unfair-peace-can-not-be-lasting-and-sustainable/

Peace
Phil Collins photo

“Well, I remember!
I remember, don't worry
How could I ever forget?
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But, I know the reason why you keep your silence up,
No you don't fool me.
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me.”

Phil Collins (1951) English musician, songwriter and actor

"In the Air Tonight"
Face Value (1981)

Hurt , Pain , Silence , Time

“The work of the liturgy transcends us because it is Christ’s work, and it is our privilege to participate. This work is an art, sanctioned by the Church, which is Christ’s Body. In the liturgy we present what He has intended to make lasting for the salvation of mankind until all is consummated.”

Glen Provost (1949) Catholic bishop

Bishop Provost’s Chrism Mass Homily for 2021 http://www.lcdiocese.org/the-diocese/our-bishop/homilies/3150-bishop-provost-s-chrism-mass-homily-for-2021 (31 March 2021)

Art , Christ
Harry Graham photo

“Uncle, whose inventive brains
kept evolving aeroplanes,
fell from an enormous height
upon my garden lawn last night.
Flying is a fatal sport,
uncle wrecked the tennis court.”

Harry Graham (1874–1936) British writer

Uncle
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

Sport , Night , Flying
Kim Hyon-hui photo

“I wasn't even allowed time to say goodbye to my friends, I was just told to pack. I was given one last night with my family.”

Kim Hyon-hui (1962) former North Korean agent

"Exclusive: My life as a North Korean super spy" in ABC News (Australia) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-10/my-life-as-a-north-korean-super-spy3a-exclusive/4621358 (10 April 2013)

Family , Time , Night
Chigozie Obioma photo

“Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”

Chigozie Obioma (1986) Nigerian writer

The fishermen (2015)

Personality , Change , Peace

“The reason why some shows do not last is that their main focus is on making money bu that is not the case with me.What i seek is to add value first in people`s lives with what I do.”

Mai Chisamba (1952)

https://www.chronicle.co.zw/mai-chisamba-show-will-go-on-as-long-as-i-live-says-dr-chisamba/ The Chronicle ( May 25, 2019)

Money , People
Angela Davis photo

“Despite the important gains of antiracist social movements over the last half century, racism hides from view within institutional structures, and its most reliable refuge is the prison system.”

Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?

Source: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Chapter Five

Simone Biles photo

“Life just happens so quickly and now I have a greater appreciation for life after everything that's happened in the last five years.”

Simone Biles (1997) American gymnast

"Simone Biles tells Hoda she's 'keeping the door open' for Olympic return" in Today (4 August 2021) https://www.today.com/news/simone-biles-talks-hoda-kotb-about-tokyo-olympics-medal-t227271?cid=sm_npd_td_tw_ma

Life
Example (musician) photo

“I'm missing my halo
Where did today go?
Why does it rain so much when it says so?
Let me show you all the beautiful things
What do they know?
Come taste the rainbow
Always gonna live like it's my last day”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Come Taste the Rainbow" (song)
("Come Taste the Rainbow" on YouTube (with lyrics)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr1pq9-AYbM
Studio albums, The Evolution of Man (2012)

Beauty
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“Do you want the shining diamonds and gold, or you wish to be given the seeds that will last and bear more fruits for you in the near future?!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Future
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“The cosmic consciousness is linked with your soul or with one tapped in their intuitive abilities. All the geniuses can be classified into this last stage of the mind and only few people have achieved that experience of the highest type of intelligence. Some we call gods, prophets, saints and others are called geniuses.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Soul , God , Intelligence , People
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“All you need in love and from your significant one is respect only. Leave beauty and intelligence at last.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Beauty , Intelligence , Love
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“It seems like great things don't last longer. Only the daily troubles and challenges are here to stay with us permanently.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“Mood swings quickly spread like a virus in the spiritual world. Only mentally able individuals are welcome at this last stage of life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Life , World , Mood
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“Most philosophers cannot last in a marriage because they cannot use the agree-to-disagree method before something that is totally out of their morals.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Marriage
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“The last child is always loved by the parents, simply because he has the ability to imitate and learn from those who saw the sun before him.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Sun , Learning , Parent , Love
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“The last child must inherit all the great attributes of his elders, then add in some of his own characteristics to be completely unique from the rest.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“The last child, which is Islam, acknowledged his elders and gave them credit for the foundations that they laid before him.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky photo

“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.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Source: General, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I

Truth , Problem
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon photo

“If there is one thing more than another that I have striven to secure during the last seven years it is that we should not incur any increase of Imperial liabilities.”

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) British Liberal statesman

Letter to C. P. Scott (21 September 1912), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon; Being the Life of Sir Edward Grey afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1937), p. 200
1910s

Charles Coughlin photo

“One thing is sure. Democracy is doomed. This is our last election. It is fascism or communism. We are at the crossroads—I take the road to fascism.”

Charles Coughlin (1891–1979) Catholic priest, radio commentator

As quoted in “Coughlin, Lemke, and the Union Party,” Dale Kramer, Minneapolis, Farmers Book Store, 1936. Also in “What’s Behind the Christian Front?” Norman Thomas, New York, Workers Defense League, 1939, p. 15 http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/THR-CF6.PDF

Democracy , Communication

“Closing the parish is the last thing I want to do, it's sad. I would rather be opening a parish.”

John Bura (1944–2023) Ukrainian Catholic bishop in the United States

Closing marks slow decline of PA. Ukrainian church https://www.wtae.com/article/closing-marks-slow-decline-of-pa-ukrainian-church/7463555 (October 28, 2013)

Sadness
Auguste, Baron Lambermont photo

“Never have I had the impression of such a moral and civic downfall. In no country, not even the last of the last, what is happening here would be possible.”

Auguste, Baron Lambermont (1819–1905) Belgian politician

All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The Anti-Slavery Conference and the Relaxing Relationship with Leopold II http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#_ftn194 Lambermont in a 1895 letter to Henri Alexis Brialmont after the failed attempt to annex the Congo State by Belgium. WILLEQUET, J. Le baron Lambermont, 113-114.

Country
Matt Ridley photo

“Natural selection has designed all parts of our bodies to last just long enough to see our children into independence, no more.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 14 “Immortality” (p. 202)

Children , Nature , Parting
Jenna Coleman photo

“It’s very hard to be objective in terms of my performances because I don’t really tend to go back and watch them and analyze them. In terms of the processes and in terms of the jobs, I tend to love my last one the best.”

Jenna Coleman (1986) English actress

Source: INTERVIEW: THE SERPENT’S JENNA COLEMAN https://brieftake.com/interview-the-serpent-jenna-coleman/ (April 1, 2021)

Love
Iain Banks photo

“Fear lasted a week, anger a year and resentment a lifetime.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 17 “Departures” (p. 305)
Context: On this purely practical issue he judged massacre wasteful and even contrary as a method of control.

Anger , Fear
Vajiralongkorn photo

“I shall maintain my loyalty to the country and honesty to the people. I will perform my duties to the best of my abilities with dedication, for the prosperity, peace and lasting security of the Thai kingdom, till the day I die.”

Vajiralongkorn (1952) King of Thailand

Source: "Pledge during an oath-taking ceremony at the ordination hall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha after his investiture as Crown Prince" https://www.bangkokpost.com/specials/royal-coronation/royal_speeches.php (28 July 1972)

People , Loyalty , Peace , Country
Paulo Coelho photo

“Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the keyring that opens the door.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Adolf Hitler photo

“Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. It will last another hundred years, two hundred years perhaps. My regret will have been that I couldn't, like whoever the prophet was, behold the promised land from afar.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Source: 27 February 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944

Disease
Anthony Trollope photo

“Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have. A man who can stick to a grievance year after year will always make money out of it at last.”

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)

Source: John Caldigate, Ch. 53

Money
Arthur C. Clarke photo

“Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 88, Epilogue

God , Universe
Arundhati Roy photo

“Last year, like many others, I too made the mistake of scoffing at this post-September 11th rhetoric, dismissing it as foolish and arrogant. But I’ve realized...It’s actually a canny recruitment drive for a misconceived, dangerous war.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)

War
Arundhati Roy photo

“Since it is September 11th we’re talking about, perhaps it’s in the fitness of things that we remember what that date means, not only to those who lost their loved ones in America last year, but to those in other parts of the world to whom that date has long held significance.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)

World , Parting , Love
Vera Stanley Alder photo

“Whatever possibilities and potentialities are latent today, the fact remains that the last word and the final decision will rest with us — the people.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter I, Secrets Behind History

People , Decision
Vera Stanley Alder photo

“Surely the human race is at last reaching the stage of adulthood — that adulthood of character which does not depend upon physical age at all — so that it is deliberately embracing responsibility for its own development and government, and trying to face up to the causes of its failures?”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII

Dependency , Adulthood , Age , Failure
Wang Qishan photo

“What we need to do is make the pie bigger while looking for ways to share it in a more equitable way. The last thing we should do is to stop making the pie and just engage in a futile debate on how to divide it. Shifting blame for one’s own problems onto others will not resolve the problems.”

Wang Qishan (1948) Chinese politician

Source: "China’s Vice President Decries Technological Hegemony" in The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-vice-president-urges-governments-to-address-their-domestic-problems-11548258999 (23 January 2019)

Problem , Way
Geling Yan photo

“I don’t consider myself a successful screenwriter. I write screenplays because I have no choice. Often I’m simply the director’s last resort. I think that good novel-writing emphasizes characterization. It’s the personality that makes a good movie or novel character unforgettable.”

Geling Yan (1958) Chinese writer and screenwriter

Source: Interview with the Big Thrill

Personality , Success , Thinking
Charles Manson photo

“I was a changed man when i got out last time, I learned ... I learned ... I learned my lesson well ...”

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician

Source: Diane Sawyer interview (ABC, 1993)

Time , Learning , Change
Zhang Zhaozhong photo

“In the military perspective, fighting is the last resort while before it there must be production on a large scale and with high enthusiasm and large-scale production on the sea.”

Zhang Zhaozhong (1952) Chinese admiral

"China boasts of strategy to “recover” islands occupied by Philippines" in China News https://chinanews.net.au/2013/05/28/china-boasts-of-strategy-to-recover-islands-occupied-by-philippines/ (28 May 2013)

Fight , Sea

“Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.”

Ziad K Abdelnour (1960) Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier, activist and author

Source: Economic Warfare Quotes

“I think to some degree, all politics is personal. It would be naïve of me to say I wrote a book just about immigrants and there's nothing political about it. As has been pointed out to me in the past, it's political to have the last name that I have. There's nothing that's not political…”

Cristina Henríquez (1977) American writer

Source: On the indirect relationship between literature and politics in “Cristina Henriquez Talks 'The Book of Unknown Americans,' POC vs. MFA, and Compassion” https://www.bustle.com/articles/27838-cristina-henriquez-talks-the-book-of-unknown-americans-poc-vs-mfa-and-compassion in Bustle (2014 Jun 13)

Personality , Books , Past , Thinking
Mateo Alemán photo

“How oft he finds himself the last, who was the first to saddle.”

Mateo Alemán book Guzmán de Alfarache

Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. IX.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)

“Early in the last century, the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike the stable heart of the continent rattled the Reelfoot Rift.”

Shawna Vogel science writer

Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)

Heart
Patricia Heaton photo

“The beauty of being a Catholic is, this is not the last time I will ever see my mother, we will be together again, there’s just this period where she’s not here, and so it’s not the most desperate feeling. It’s pretty bad, but it’s not the worst.”

Patricia Heaton (1958) American actress

Source: Patricia Heaton's Catholicism Helped Her Cope with Her Mom’s Death: ‘We Will Be Together Again’ https://people.com/tv/patricia-heaton-catholicism-mom-death/ (May 17, 2018)

Time , Beauty , Feeling
Menghesteab Tesfamariam photo

“In my Archdiocese of Asmara, we have declared this week as a week of prayer from last Sunday to the coming Sunday. That is what we can do as a people of faith.”

Menghesteab Tesfamariam (1948) Eritrean Catholic archbishop

Source: Eritrean Archbishop describes new door of peace as a miracle https://www.vaticannews.va/en/africa/news/2018-06/eritrean-archbishop-describes-new-door-of-peace-as-a-miracle.html (27 June 2018)

Faith , People
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor photo

“[Our policy] has always been to deal first with matters which are easiest to resolve and leave the most difficult ones until last.”

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor

“When angry do not sin; do not ever let your wrath (your exasperation, your fury or indignation) last until the sun goes down. Leave no such room or foothold for the devil give no opportunity to him.”

book Bible

Source: Ephesians 4:26-27, AMP

Sun , Truth
Jay Samit photo

“Wealth that can last generations can now be attained in the shortest time ever in history.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Time , History , Wealth
Mencius photo

“Most precious are the people; next come the spirits of land and grain; and last, the kings.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

(zh-TW) 民為貴，社稷次之，君為輕。
7B:14. Variant translations:
Of the first importance are the people, next comes the good of land and grains, and of the least importance is the ruler.
The people are the most important ... and the ruler is the least important.
The Mencius
Variant: The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain come next; the sovereign counts for the least.

People
Robert B. Reich photo

“Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.”

Robert B. Reich (1946) American political economist

21 January 2022 https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1484223895297089539

Night , Women
Gong Yoo photo

“I think I was pretty much constant, unvarying, for 20 years. So, I do want to give myself a pat on the back for focusing on one career without any dramatic slumps for the last 20 years. But [personally] I don’t want a son like me. I don’t think that highly of myself.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Gong Yoo talks life, death and 20 years in the business" in Korea JoongAng Daily https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/04/19/entertainment/movies/Gong-Yoo-actor-interview/20210419145803689.html (19 April 2021)

Personality , Thinking

“The secret of American schooling is that it doesn't teach the way children learn, and it isn't supposed to; school was engineered to serve a concealed command economy and a deliberately re-stratified social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families as those individuals and institutions would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society; like most first impressions, it is the lasting one. Life according to school is dull and stupid, only consumption promises relief: Coke, Big Macs, fashion jeans, that's where real meaning is found, that is the classroom's lesson, however indirectly delivered.”

John Taylor Gatto book The Underground History of American Education

Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (2001), pp. 105-106

Fashion , Life , Children , Learning

“The home-schooling movement has quietly grown to a size where one and half million young people are being educated entirely by their own parents; last month the education press reported the amazing news that, in their ability to think, children schooled at home seem to be five or even ten years ahead of their formally trained peers.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 22

Home , Children , People , Training
Jackson Browne photo

“Now roll them cases out and lift them amps,
Haul them trusses down and get 'em up them ramps.
Cause when it comes to moving me,
You know you guys are the champs.
But when that last guitar's been packed away,
You know that I still want to play.
So just make sure you got it all set to go
Before you come for my piano.”

Jackson Browne (1948) American singer-songwriter

Source: Running on Empty (1977), "The Load-Out"

Guy
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton photo

“A time came when the Catholics, having long relied on force, were compelled to appeal to opinion. That which had been defiantly acknowledged and defended required to be ingeniously explained away. The same motive which had justified the murder now prompted the lie. Men shrank from the conviction that the rulers and restorers of their Church had been murderers and abetters of murder, and that so much infamy had been coupled with so much zeal. They feared to say that the most monstrous of crimes had been solemnly approved at Rome, lest they should devote the Papacy to the execration of mankind. A swarm of facts were invented to meet the difficulty: The victims were insignificant in number; they were slain for no reason connected with religion; the Pope believed in the existence of the plot; the plot was a reality; the medal is fictitious; the massacre was a feint concerted with the Protestants themselves; the Pope rejoiced only when he heard that it was over. These things were repeated so often that they have been sometimes believed; and men have fallen into this way of speaking whose sincerity was unimpeachable, and who were not shaken in their religion by the errors or the vices of Popes. Möhler was pre-eminently such a man. In his lectures on the history of the Church, which were published only last year, he said that the Catholics, as such, took no part in the massacre; that no cardinal, bishop, or priest shared in the councils that prepared it; that Charles informed the Pope that a conspiracy had been discovered; and that Gregory made his thanksgiving only because the King's life was saved. Such things will cease to be written when men perceive that truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

Source: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)

Sincerity , Life , Men , Truth
Winston S. Churchill photo

“Silly people, and there are many, not only in enemy countries, might discount the force of the United States. Some said they were soft, others that they would never be united. They would fool around at a distance. They would never come to grips. They would never stand bloodletting. Their democracy and system of recurrent elections would paralyse their war horizon to friend or foe. Now we should see the weakness of this numerous but remote, wealthy, and talkative people. But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

The Second World War (1948–1953)
Source: The Grand Alliance: The Second World War, Volume 3, (1950) p. 540

Democracy , Country , Study , War

“We are all at one stage or another of being unfinished. We can be born with deficiencies, or incur disabilities, some of which last through life. In fact, we are never finished while death is still in front of us. When there is something that cannot be resolved or fulfilled within our present span of life, it helps to remember that our life was not something we had a right to in the first place; it is simply gift. And our present life is not the whole of it.”

Peter Cullinane (1936) Catholic bishop

Unmoored https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/08/31/unmoored/ (August 31, 2021)

Help , Life , Death
David Letterman photo

“All right, that's pretty much all I got. The only thing I have left to do, for the last time on a television program: Thank you and good night.”

David Letterman (1947) American comedian and actor

Source: Final sign-off at end of final show, Late Night with David Letterman (20 May 2015).

Time , Night
Louise Glück photo

“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”

Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet

Source: "Against Sincerity", in American Poetry Review, Vol. XXII, No. 5 (1993), p. 29

Life
Eminem photo

“This time around it's different, them last two albums didn't count
Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushin' 'em out”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Talkin' 2 Myself"
2010s, Recovery (2010)

Time

“Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane. … Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. Most spend their last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animals and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Animals which are a year old are often far more rational – and capable of logical thought – than six-week-old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children.”

Vernon Coleman (1946) British doctor

"Twenty One Reasons For Being A Vegetarian" (2007), in vernoncoleman.com http://www.vernoncoleman.com/twentyoner.htm.

Baby , Intelligence , Death , Pain
Santiago Ramón y Cajal photo

“Instead of elaborating on accepted principles, let us simply point out that for the last hundred years the natural sciences have abandoned completely the Aristotelian principles of intuition, inspiration, and dogmatism.”

Santiago Ramón y Cajal book Advice for a Young Investigator

Advice for a Young Investigator (1897)

Nature , Science
Sigourney Weaver photo

“I guess I don`t think of film as an innovative medium. I guess I feel that film kind of caught up to what`s been happening to women for the last 20 years.”

Sigourney Weaver (1949) American actress

“SIGOURNEY WEAVER`S CLOSE SHAVE” (May 16, 1992)

Thinking , Feeling , Women
Ron English photo

“I hope my journey to death lasts at least ninety years.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Death , Hope
Ron English photo

“It’s better to get the last laugh than the joke.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Fortunatus Nwachukwu photo

“Peace that is imposed is only war that is postponed, while peace that is agreed, peace that is reached through dialogue, is lasting peace.”

Fortunatus Nwachukwu (1960) Roman Catholic archbishop

Priests are “first and foremost bridge builders”: Nigerian-born Permanent Observer to UN https://www.aciafrica.org/news/5470/priests-are-first-and-foremost-bridge-builders-nigerian-born-permanent-observer-to-un (18 March 2022)

Peace , War
A. C. Grayling photo

“When the Bible was the only book people knew, they naturally thought it embodied all that is true; but when their reading expanded, and with it the world, and a sense of other times, other voices, other possibilities and points of view, that authority could not last.”

A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 20, “Intellectuals” (p. 86)

People , Books , World , Time
Jules Michelet photo

“The last people in the world in whom the personality would consent to be absorbed into pantheism is the French.”

Jules Michelet (1798–1874) French historian

Introduction à l'histoire universelle, new ed. (Paris: Hachette, 1879), p. 136
Introduction to Universal History, 1831

World , Personality , People
Joe Biden photo

“[S]ome of last month’s job growth is a result of the December relief package. But without a rescue plan, these gains are going to slow. We can’t afford one step forward and two steps backwards. We need to beat the virus, provide essential relief, and build an inclusive recovery.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2021, March 2021, Remarks by President Biden Before Economic Briefing with Treasury Secretary Yellen

Joe Biden photo

“At least 55 corporations in America didn't pay a single penny in federal income tax last year. That’s got to change—and my Build Back Better Agenda will get it done.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

via twitter (October 25, 2021) https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1452666011350614020
2021, October 2021

Change
Enoch Powell photo

“Being a nation is, in the last resort, subjective; those who feel they are a nation and behave accordingly are one.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

The Guardian (4 June 1979), quoted in Simon Heffer, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (1998), p. 822
1970s

Feeling
Enoch Powell photo

“[T]he only realignment of currencies which can be lasting and satisfactory is one which is continuously worked out by a free market.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1971/nov/23/currency-parities-group-of-ten#column_1110 in the House of Commons (23 November 1971)
1970s

“I haven't been focused as much as I should have been on supporting trans rights in the last 12 months. I now realize that this is where the fight for global democracy is. There is no avoiding it.”

Jason Stanley (1969) American philosopher

Twitter https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1534592219533000705, 3:44 AM · Jun 9, 2022

Democracy , Support , Fight
Evelyn Waugh photo

“I have become very old in the last two years. Not diseased but enfeebled. There is nowhere I want to go and nothing I want to do and I am conscious of being an utter bore. The Vatican Council has knocked the guts out of me.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Letter to Lady Mosley (9 March 1966), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 638

Disease
Leonard Cohen photo

“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking.
Everybody knows that the captain lied...
And everybody knows that you're in trouble...
Everybody knows it's coming apart.
Take one last look...Before it blows.
Everybody knows”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Everybody Knows" Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson.
I'm Your Man (1988)

Bob Dylan photo

“You must leave, now take what you need, You think will last.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Thinking
David Attenborough photo

“Sensing the approaching danger, the snail flees. But in a world of snail paces, the conch is something of a Ferrari. It calls for desperate measures. Exhausted by the effort of its last-ditch attempt, the tulip snail is slowly... gunned... down.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

"Tidal Seas"
Blue Planet (2001)

Sense , World , Effort
Benito Mussolini photo

“I think that within five or six months’ time there will be quite a few Socialists who will recognize that I am the only Socialist that there has been in Italy for the last five years; and I am not being paradoxical, even if I add that the Socialist Party on the whole is detestable.”

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…

“Sacrifice, Work, and Production” Speech in Milan before the Fascio Milanese Combattimento (5 February 1920) p. 69
1920s, Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)

Time , Thinking
Kim Stanley Robinson photo

“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)

Despair
Alexander Vindman photo

“As a young man, I decided I wanted to spend my life serving this Nation that gave my family refuge from authoritarian oppression. For the last 20 years, it has been an honor to represent and protect this great country.”

Alexander Vindman (1975) retired United States Army officer, diplomat, and national security officer

Source: Impeachment Inquiry: Ms. Jennifer Williams and Lietenant Colonel Alexander Vindman (Tuesday, November 19, 2019), p. 20.

Family , Country , Life
Dave Leduc photo

“We’ll let the peasants fight for last place.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

After arriving in first place in the third episode of The Amazing Race Canada, Season 7 https://www.tv-eh.com/2019/07/16/the-amazing-race-canada-one-way-fun-day-in-edmonton/ (July 16, 2019)

Fight
Robert Rubin photo

“The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.”

Robert Rubin book In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

"In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington" https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_an_Uncertain_World/oUz_orYBwPcC?hl=en&gbpv=0, p. 64

People
Frank Lloyd Wright photo

“See the last chapter in Genesis where Cain, the murderer of his brother, went forth with his sons to found the city. The City is still murdering his brother.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach photo

“There are no limitations to excuses. It may give a moment relieve. But, anything outside that is the long-lasting sufferings of what was neglected to underscore before the excuses. So, we make excuses to justify our failures. Because, failure and success are the future life of a doer.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)
Success , Future , Suffering , Failure
Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo

“Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right —
The leaves upon her falling light —
Thro' the noises of the night,
She floated down to Camelot:
And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott.

Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,
Till her blood was frozen slowly,
And her eyes were darkened wholly,
Turn'd to tower'd Camelot.
For ere she reach'd upon the tide
The first house by the water-side,
Singing in her song she died,
The Lady of Shalott.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott (1832)

Housing , Lying , Night , Light
Margaret Cho photo

“You will never make love, laugh, fight, eat, go to the movies, kiss, smile, dance, sing, run, skate, play the piano, buy candy for, argue jokingly, tell stories, look longingly at, jump on the bed with, pet the dogs with your faces, sing along with the song in the car and get the words wrong, share a secret, gossip, cop a feel, go hear a band that you both love, share a really good meal, carpool with people you don't like and make fun of them secretly later, cry, comfort, scratch backs, insist on pizza, catch them staring at you, put your arms around them, stay up too late, lean against warm bodies, feel safe with their feet sliding next to yours in bed, raise your children, go to boring dinner parties and get too drunk to drive home so you sleep in the car, spend alternate holidays with each others families, have uncontrollable lust with, followed by mind blowing fuck sessions lasting for hours and hours at a time, take a bath so hot one of you has to get out, all naked and wet and red and dizzy but not embarrassed because this is who you love and rarely are you shy with them, watch a TV show you both hate because the remote control is broken--merely happily, and maybe sometimes unhappily, share your life, and be with them, but you can't, because they're dead. Suddenly, unjustly, untimely, irretrievably--unconscionably dead.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, DEATH

Cry , Dead , Love , Life

“Nothing lasts forever, including love. And therefore it must be renewed from time to time in order to become firm and stronger, so as not to become bland”

Titon Rahmawan

#nothing lasts forever

Time , Love
Prevale photo

“In a love story, always make your significant other happy and create a world, capable of lasting a lifetime.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In una storia d'amore, rendi sempre felice la tua dolce metà e crea un mondo, capace di durare una vita.
Source: prevale.net

Happiness , World , Love
Prevale photo

“Where there is no passion, no relationship can last.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Dove non esista passione, non può durare nessuna relazione.
Source: prevale.net

Passion

“Being respected as a reflection of fear will only last as long as the fear remains. Conversely, being respected as a form of love will last forever.”

Titon Rahmawan
Fear , Love

“When victory is gained by cunning and vicious means. By deceit and manipulation, such victories will never last. History is written by the victors. But history also proves, if the glory that is built with the denial of human values is only waiting for the time of its own destruction.”

Titon Rahmawan
History , Time , Waiting , Victory

“Love is generally romantic only in the beginning, and it doesn't last forever. Love slowly falls into a dull routine and some even lose the romance that once made love feel beautiful. But couples who can maintain the romance are generally called by the cause of sincere love, sincere sacrifice and sincere appreciation and hope for their partner's happiness.”

Titon Rahmawan
Happiness , Sincerity , Beauty , Hope

“Victory over self will not lead us to glory. It is only a postponement of destruction. There is no lasting victory except for those who have faced and defeated death.”

Titon Rahmawan
Victory , Death
Jaromír Jágr photo

““It’s 11:15 p. m. Most people are asleep and I’m just finishing my last exercise with my 30-pound vest. I sit on the bench to have some rest. I look at myself in the mirror. After a while, I ask myself a question: “Is it really still worth it?” Unfortunately, I don’t think I can answer this question. I really can’t. I keep thinking,

“You are alone, no family, you work like a horse, there is no one waiting for you at home.” This doesn’t sound too great, I think. But then another question pops up: “Then why do you keep doing it?” I know the answer to this question without hesitation. “Because I love it.””

Jaromír Jágr (1972) Czech ice hockey winger
Home , Question , Thinking , Love