Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Oliver

I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

Paul Celan

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Oscar Wilde

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Oscar Wilde

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Oscar Wilde

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Lucretius

These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

Lorrie Moore

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Nicole Krauss

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

Mark Twain

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

John Green

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

John Green

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

John Green

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

P. G. Wodehouse

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

Ovid

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

Marya Mannes

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

Oswald Chambers

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Michel de Montaigne

All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

Markus Zusak

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

Mario Batali

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Mario Batali

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Chris Rock

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

George Pataki

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Jonathan Tropper

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

Kenneth H. Cooper

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Kelley Armstrong

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

John C. Reilly

The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.

William Ford

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.

James Patterson

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)