Quotes of: Last Keyword

Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.

Life

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Vernon Howard

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

Vanilla Ice

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

Virginia Woolf

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

William Wells Brown

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Walt Whitman

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.

Amanda Lindhout

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Don DeLillo

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

Donald Rumsfeld

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

Liv Tyler

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

Shahrukh Khan

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

Pat Brown

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.

Will Rogers

In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much of it destroyed, the sea remains the final unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilderness, the planet’s last great frontier. There are ...

Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves

Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose will peer out in all our ways and deeds, but there is...

A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, which Lasted One Night and One Day; with a History of the Pursuit of Earl Lavender and Lord Brumm by Mrs. Scamler and Maud Emblem

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all t...

The Fire Next Time

Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of ...

The Great Gatsby

He turned to take one last look at the Old People’s Home that – until a few moments ago – he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place. The hundred-year-old...

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' ...

Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others may have loftier parts to enact; but my mission in this world, Bartleby, is to furnish you with office-room for such period as you may see fit to r...

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions ...

America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 2: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989