Reality is seeing that the peace in a picture is a dream.
[last lines] Death: I have seen a great many things. I have attended all the world's worst disasters, and worked for the greatest of villains. And I've seen the greatest wonders. But it's still like I said it was: no one lives forever. Death: When I ...
This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.
I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.
As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to b...
Indiana Jones: [to his father] I was just remembering the last time we had a quiet drink together. I had a milkshake.
...it is a different matter entirely to commit military resources to keep peace in such areas, where often no peace can be kept, or to build nations in our own image before they are ready for our freedoms - or even want them. The military need not do...
Be first in the field, the last to the couch.
Stones decay; words last.
There are no birds in last year's nest.
A woman is the last judgement of the man.
Luck that lasts is always suspect.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
