Quotes of: Last-time Keyword

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfortunately, it seems to be working backward at the moment, and even I can find no way to set it right. ...

The Last Unicorn

If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic force disappear when I locked the door of her cell behind me? That would be like saying that the writing of this book, over which I ha...

Gene Wolfe

Last night I made a thousand plans, but this morning I went my old way.

Chinese

Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find you cannot eat your money.

Canadian

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a herm...

The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than ...

Mindfulness Is Better Than Chocolate: A Practical Guide to Enhanced Focus and Lasting Happiness in a World of Distractions

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering...

The History of Love

Pu Yi, at 15: Who is this George Washington? Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: A famous American, your majesty. A revolutionary general, the first American president. Pu Yi, at 15: Ah, like Mr. Lenin in Russia? Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: Not q...

The Last Emperor

It is of the extraordinary insights of Imam Malik that the first section of his Muwatta', which precedes even the section on ritual purity, is on the times of the prayer. It is the times of prayer that obligate purity. Observing the times of prayer i...

Agenda to Change Our Condition

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

The English Girl

The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem

Eternal

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Herman Hesse

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

Stephen Sprouse

Kiss me one last time Skye... before I die. I want to enter heaven with the taste of you on my lips.

Sins of the Father

Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black.

The Master and Margarita

No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.

Love Exactly

There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

La Cage Aux Folles

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

The Leftovers

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The Life of Samuel Johnson

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

Last Words

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Man Crazy