Quotes of: Finish-last Keyword

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

The All-the-Way Man

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.)

Angel

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

The Art of the Novel

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization wi...

William Morris

You ‘accidentally’ touched his bottom? Didn’t that happen when you last saw him as well? Surprising how often that seems to be a problem.

Husbands for Peace

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

The Hours

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Half of a Yellow Sun

Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?

Howard Carter Saves the World

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

The Innocents Abroad

I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last." -George from If We Kiss

If We Kiss

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

I Am Pilgrim

Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

Just Friends Never Lovers

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

King Lear

Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.

A Rule Against Murder

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

The Return of the Native

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Requiem

Live every day like it's your last. Treasure the moments you have, and make sure you make them count.

Ruining You

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

The Silver Chair

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

Scarlett

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Sand and Foam

Better to leave with good memories than have the last ones be the embarrassing, smoking ruin of what once had been a fantastic friendship.

Solid Ground