Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Rhys

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

Jean Rhys

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

James A. Baldwin

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Jacques Santer

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Christopher Lasch

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

George Harrison

A cloudburst doesn't last all day. . .

Jeanette Winterson

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Jennifer Stone

Longing is all that lasts.

Jello Biafra

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

Jeannette Rankin

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Georges Danton

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Jay Asher

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

Graham Chapman

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Golda Meir

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Hannah Arendt

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

He's the one we have to watch, last year he did us in.

He's learned a lot about the sport in the last two years. The next Olympics are going to be even better than this one.

Jonathan Turley

He's a man who seems to take his legacy seriously, ... The last thing he wants is to be viewed as the man who ran through Roberts on a party vote.

Curt Schilling

he said. ''And when we get to October I'll be the pitcher I was last year.

He said, 'Let's go play the last two weeks and see if we can get something going,'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

George Best

Don't die like I did.

George Bernard Shaw

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Erich Fromm

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Erica Jong

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Eoin Colfer

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Christoph Waltz

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

Chris Terrio

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Chris Tucker

That’s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!

Chris Kattan

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that