Lasts Quotations

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

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

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Enjoy the day as if it were your last.

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.