Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Woodruff

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

Paul Klee

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

Mark Strand

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

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.

Pau Gasol

We have a great friendship that I hope will last our entire lives.

Paul Auster

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Paul Auster

Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

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.

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.

Neal A. Maxwell

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.

Muhammad Ali

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

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.

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.

Mikhail Bulgakov

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

Maria Bello

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

Ned Vizzini

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

Nadine Gordimer

Communists are the last optimists.

Oliver Goldsmith

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Leos Carax

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.