This will be my last contract. I wanted it to be a good one.
You're only as good as your last haircut.
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
Have a blast while you last.
[last lines] Humbert Humbert: Quilty! Quilty?
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
The sadness will last forever.
Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile." [ ]
I'm bored with it all. - Last Words
I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.
The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.
Hi,' he says. 'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry. 'You know,' Nick says as he hands her a tissue from the bedside table,' for all this talk about how you don't cry, you sure are sprouting a lot of water.
She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.
But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.
The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human ...
... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business...
