Quotes about last

The first dance is the worst dance the last dance is the best dance! All the roads of persistent practice lead to the Land of Perfection!

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Many are called, few are chosen.

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?

The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.

You rarely know, in the moment, when it's the last time you'll do something. Most of the time, the whole thing just sneaks away in the night, never to be seen or heard from again, not even sending back so much as a postcard to say hello.

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

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.

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

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

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

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.'

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn’t it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?

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.

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.

I prefer to be the first to be wrong than to be the last to be right

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

Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

Тhere isnʹt much I wouldnʹt do for you. Тhe stupider, the better.

But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done.""Sounds easy enough.""Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?""Maybe later," said Gracious."How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.

When you do exams you never want to be the one who finishes first and you never want to be the one who finishes last.

The most serious will miss heaven, the unserious rebel will repent in the last hour.

Kiss someone like it's the last one you give.

High buildings fall, black oceans rise, and coins sink in height Where weapons smash in every grace, with every black and white The east drops, the west too, children die and so do oldWith every sin, and every crime, people drop by their goldThe ground wrecks to chunks where people tend to fallAnd gardens turn dumps but the tiny bird’s soulFire, Wind, Water and Sun, all kill a birthIt just goes on to be the Last day on earth

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

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.

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.

Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.

We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.

Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season.

You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.

The principle of giving should become a mandate for action for the Christians of the last days

I wont cry, it'll be fine. I'll take my last breath. Push it out my chest 'til there's nothing left.

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.

Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all.

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.

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.

Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.

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.

If he can't get to the clock, any idea how we deal with this lot?""With great care," Donegan suggested."How about we run off shout and they follow?" Said Gracious. "Then, just when they think they've caught us they fall into our trap.""OK," said Tanith. "And that trap would be?""A big hole we'd dug earlier and covered with branches.'Tanith frowned. "I thought you were meant to be smart."Gracious frowned back at her. "Who told you that?""Gracious is book smart," said Donegan. "He leaves the real

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

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.

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

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.

I'm going to build that house with my own hands, from the foundation to the roof. I'm going to do it for us, and I'm going to do it right, so it lasts forever. Can't go raising walls on a shaky foundation. Can't go slapping thatch over rafters so thin, they'll topple with the first winter storm. Do you know?"She nodded. "I know."He reached for her hand. "It's the same with us. I mean to build something with you. Something that will last. Much as I want you, I don't want to rush and bollocks it u

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.

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.

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.