Last Quotes
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"I don’t want to make love last, I want to make love second to last. The last thing we’ll do is cuddle."
"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."
"The last goose in the column is flying just as high."
"The last day is way shorter than counting to ten."
"We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her."
Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
"Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last."
"Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season."
"It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front."
"Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted."
"Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here."
"Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue."
"I wont cry, it'll be fine. I'll take my last breath. Push it out my chest 'til there's nothing left."
"She closed her eyes and took a deep breath for one last time and let his hand go. She saw his boat drifting away they both looked at each other and waved one last time before she could not see him anymore."
"You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song."
"At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart."
"The principle of giving should become a mandate for action for the Christians of the last days"
"Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all."
"Love is an intangible thing. When you truly love, you learn that what you feel is more significant than anything that you can see. Love has more power than any weapon. It is more life giving than food or medicine. Sometimes love lasts forever and sometimes it lasts just long enough to teach you what you need to learn."
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air."
"It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul."
"We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men."
"Love me like today is the last day we can see stars in the sky, let us sleep under them and throw ourselves into the oblivion and never again reach out for reality."
"Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue."
"I tap my pen against the Edith Piaf record, thinking of how to express my future sentiments when my journey comes to an end. Either in the arms of the girl I love, or buried in a box of memories, this note will be the last.'Ma femme, Je ne regrette rien, because I found everything. I love you."
"Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well."
"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance."
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
"At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the world, but for a moment, then leave. At the edge, where life losses its edginess, and thoughts we will become one, someday. At the edge the sun drops, the ring falls, and senses of raindrops climb upwards to the gray sky."
"My dad once said... "Some friends are like "rubber wrappers"; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much". Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!"
"Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul."
"Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust."
"Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation."
"I saw many people who begun their marathon races lately, but they eventually came up as top winners. I believe that your "lateness" does not account for your "lastness". It's not too late for you to make a start... Begin it now! No further delays!"
"I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory"
"Only one life, it will soon be past,only what’s done for Christ will last."
"and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"There is a time and place for electromagnetic shielding and I regard it as a last resort due to the long term biological problems that I have observed with it over the years in plant growth experiments."
"I prefer to be the first to be wrong than to be the last to be right"
"Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last"
"Kiss someone like it's the last one you give."
"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?"
"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."
"My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward."
"The government is becoming the family of last resort."
"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."
"One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this."
"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned."
"Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter."
"It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'"
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
"The most serious will miss heaven, the unserious rebel will repent in the last hour."
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