If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.
Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.
I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.
If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.
I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.
Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our l...
I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be des...
I read of a Buddhist teacher who developed Alzheimer's. He had retired from teaching because his memory was unreliable, but he made one exception for a reunion of his former students. When he walked onto the stage, he forgot everything, even where he...
Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice' rituals. Just as a bear must turn over stumps searching for beetles, real humans can only live life spiritually. Birth...
Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reali...
When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, "Many fine things your father had planned for you: learning and useful work and a life of satisfaction and peace. Do you recall this?" "...
Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before." "I know that. Where do you think I got my information?" "What do you know about us?" "I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it is troubled." "It is beautiful," Meg said defens...
