source: "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

topic: Mean, Climbing, Lasts

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

- Alan Blinder

topic: Bankers, Lasts, Duty

Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.

- Alan Brazil

topic: Football, Lasts, Winner, Tottenham

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

- Alan Colmes

topic: Would Be, Littles, Lasts

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one.

- Alan Coren

source: "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

topic: War, Way, Lasts

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

- Alan Jackson

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Lasts, Mature

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Lasts, Spokes, Microphones, Dubbing, Snape

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

- Alan Rudolph

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Lasts, Next, Filmmaker

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

- Alan Sugar

topic: Regret, Years, Lasts

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

- Alana Stewart

source: "Is ‘I Do’ Supposed To Be Forever?" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

topic: Forever, Lasts, Wonderful, Wonderful Marriage

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

- Alasdair Gray

topic: Church, Half, Lasts, Glasgow

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

- Albert Camus

topic: Art, Men, Lasts

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

- Albert Camus

topic: Sky, Lasts

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

- Albert Camus

topic: Lasts, Certain, Conclusion

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

- Albert Camus

topic: Lasts, Desert, Reason

N'attendez pas le jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours. Do not wait for the last judgment. It happens every day.

- Albert Camus

topic: Waiting, Lasts, Judgment

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

- Albert Meltzer

topic: Optimism, Lasts, Defeated

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

topic: Mother, Water, Lasts, Co2, Foreground

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

- Alcaeus

topic: Men, Wrath, Lasts

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: War, Vocabulary, Lasts, War Propaganda, Diabolical

I feel I'm in 2006 form to be honest. I hear a lot of comparisons to 2004, but I never changed. Last year was a struggle but I've worked hard. . . I'm not going back, I'm going forward.

- Alecko Eskandarian

topic: Struggle, Years, Lasts

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

- Alessandro Baricco

topic: Mind, Lasts, Resolution

You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Goal, Mind, Lasts, Last Minute

I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.

- Alex Prager

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Two, Lasts, Imagine

It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

- Alex Prager

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Mean, Lasts, Film

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

- Alexander Gordon Smith

topic: Lasts

The way something looks is the last thing we figure out

- Alexander Isley

topic: Looks, Way, Lasts

He who shoots first laughs last.

- Alexander Lebed

topic: Laughing, Lasts, Firsts

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

- Alexander Payne

source: "Alexander Payne: Life after Sideways" by Simon Hattestone, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Age, Lasts, Sentimentality

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Past, Politics, Lasts

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Character, Past, Lasts

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Firsts, Lasts, Next

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.47

topic: Time, Lasts

Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

- Alexandra Bracken

topic: Sorry, Virginia, Lasts, West Virginia, Bargains

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

- Alexis Denisof

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Writing, Way, Lasts

When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?

- Alfie Kohn

topic: Years, Lasts, Last Time

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Religion, Lasts, Refuge, Savagery

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

- Alice Barrett

topic: Lasts, Brown, Episodes, Murphy Brown

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

- Alice Steinbach

topic: Littles, Lasts, Values

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

- Alicia Machado

topic: Beauty, Mind, Lasts

Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.

- Alison Croggon

topic: Love Is, Agony, Lasts

I've been with 'Days of Our Lives' for 21 years, and I've decided this year is going to be my last year.

- Alison Sweeney

topic: Years, Lasts

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

- Allan Gurganus

source: Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage

topic: Years, Fifty, Lasts, Curator

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

- Allison Pearson

source: Allison Pearson (2003). “I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

topic: Unrequited Love, Love Is, Lasts

Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.

- Ally Carter

topic: Girl, Voice, Lasts, Gallagher, Gallagher Girl

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.

- Alona Tal

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Anxiety, Lasts, Classroom

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.

- Alonzo Mourning

source: "Alonzo Mourning: The Edge of Sports Interview". Interview with Dave Zirin, bleacherreport.com. January 27, 2009.

topic: People, Tough Times, Lasts

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.

- Alton Brown

topic: Years, Lasts, Heat, Cold Heart

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

- Alvin Dark

topic: Lasts, Taught, Lord

Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.

- Alvin Plantinga

topic: Lasts, Philosopher, Century

I have to say I'm very good on a bike. Maybe the last time I was 5 years old.

- Alysia Reiner

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Years, Lasts, Very Good

There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

- Amadeo Bordiga

topic: Lasts, Economy, Genre

Nothing lasts forever but we always try, and I just can't help but wonder why we let it pass us by

- Amanda Marshall

source: Song: Beautiful Goodbye, Album: Amanda Marshall, 1995

topic: Forever, Trying, Lasts, Nothing Lasts Forever

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

source: Ambeth R. Ocampo (2001). “Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures”

topic: Viewpoints, Lasts, Source

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Europe, Bitterness, Lasts, Dissension, Sects

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Opportunity, Frowning, Lasts

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Desire, Denial, Lasts

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Demand, Lasts, Diplomacy, Ultimatum

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: San Francisco, People, Lasts

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Doubt, Lasts

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

- America Ferrera

topic: Long, Want, Lasts

The last love is the most lasting of loves

- Amit Abraham

topic: Love Is, Love Relationship, Lasts, Lasting Love

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

- Amy Bloom

topic: Depth, Stories, Lasts

I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.

- Amy Lee

topic: Feelings, Want, Lasts

Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.

- Amy Lowell

topic: Lasts, Tradition, Poet, Exponents

Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.

- Amy Ridenour

topic: Rope, Lasts, Environment

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Self Worth, Self, Lasts

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

- Anabel Jensen

topic: Lasts, Firsts, Argument

And last of all comes death.

- Anacreon

source: "Odes" by Anacreon, L. (XL VIII.), 28,

topic: Death, Lasts

Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception.

- Andre Benjamin

topic: Forever, Making Love, Lasts, Nothing Lasts Forever

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

- Andreï Makine

topic: Mistake, Paradise, Lasts, Fatal Mistakes

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

- Andrew Clements

source: Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott (2007). “No Talking”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lasts, Remember, Dave, Grownups

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

- Andrew Greeley

topic: Yesterday, Years, Lasts

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

- Andy Borowitz

source: FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Dec 13, 2012

topic: Baby, Jesus, Lasts, Baby Jesus

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.

- Andy Borowitz

topic: Lasts, Republican, Excited

I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Lasts, Kind, Results

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Age, Lasts

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Forever, Lasts, Wonder, Pop Art

My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?'

- Angela Ahrendts

topic: Dad, Looks, Lasts

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.

- Angie Stone

topic: Junk, Lasts, Busy, Always On The Go

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Usa, Starting Over, Lasts, Certificates, Birth Certificate

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

- Anna Kamienska

topic: Lying, Sound, Lasts

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

- Anna Kavan

topic: Mountain, Lasts, Cold

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

- Anna Lee

topic: Years, Lasts, Young

Play the last measure very softly.

- Anna Pavlova

topic: Play, Lasts

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: America, May, Lasts, Uncomplicated, Victim Mentality

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Fashion, Lasts, Comes And Goes

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.284, Harvard University Press

topic: Together, Would Be, Lasts

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

- Anne Bronte

topic: Heaven, Safe, Lasts

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if youve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

- Anne Dudley

topic: Way, Lasts, Helping, Film Scores

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Forever, Lasts

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...

- Anne Tyler

topic: Marriage, Lasts, Parenthood

Life is an illusion that last too little.

- Annette Curtis Klause

topic: Littles, Lasts, Life Is

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

- Anthony Braxton

topic: Growing Up, Space, Lasts, Slowly But Surely

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Writing, Years, Lasts, Last Five Years

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Want, Lasts

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

- Antonio Porchia

topic: Doe, Lasts, Language

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

- Antony C. Sutton

source: Antony C. Sutton (1977). “The War on Gold”, Concord Books

topic: Gold, Lasts, Reason, Deluge

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

- Antony Garrett Lisi

topic: Lasts

I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Division, Jerusalem, Lasts

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

- Aristotle

topic: Tolerance, Dying, Lasts

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Long, People, Lasts

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Matter, Lasts, Sound

Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.

- Arlene J. Chai

source: Arlene J. Chai (1995). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, Fawcett Books

topic: Passion, Matter, Lasts

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Titles, Gaps, Lasts, Tottenham, Arsenal

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

- Arthur Bloch

topic: Tasks, Schedules, Lasts

Now I understand,â€ said the last man.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Men, Lasts, Said

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Boredom, Enemy, Lasts

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: His Last Bow 'The Adventure of the Red Circle'

topic: Lessons, Lasts, Ends

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Entrepreneur, Today, Lasts

in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Society, Lasts, Dizzy, Pertinent Questions

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Pride, Racism, Lasts, Patriotism And Nationalism

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Struggle, Majority, Lasts, Constant Struggle

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

- Asa Gray

topic: Annoyed, Lasts, Saws

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

- Ashley Bickerton

topic: Art, Wall, Lasts, Off The Wall

During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It has become mathematical. The question now is, not whether this or that hypothesis is better or worse to the pure thought, but whether it accords with observed phenomena in those consequences which can be shown necessarily to follow from it, if it be true

- Augustus De Morgan

source: Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.2

topic: Two, Half, Lasts

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

- Avery Brooks

topic: Years, People, Lasts

I'm gonna live today like this is my last day.. :)

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Live For Today, Today, Lasts, Last Day

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

- Axl Rose

topic: Writing, Levels, Lasts

I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: People, Want, Lasts

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

- B. W. Powe

source: "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

topic: Dream, Gold, Lasts

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Lasts

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

source: Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.15, Arktos

topic: Past, Darkness, Lasts, Fade Away

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

- Bao ?ai

topic: War, Lasts, Ends

We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory.

- Barack Obama

topic: Victory, President, Lasts, Immigration Reform

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

- Barack Obama

topic: Cutting, Class, Lasts, Tax Cuts

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

- Barbara Delinsky

topic: Attention, Lasts, Competing

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

- Barbara Fredrickson

source: Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.50, Harmony

topic: Positive, Positivity, Lasts, Unexplained

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Generations, Lasts, Next, Worst Fear

We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

topic: Waiting, Body, Lasts, Depopulation, Population Control

A star is only as good as her last picture.

- Barbara Stanwyck

topic: Stars, Lasts

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

- Barbara Stanwyck

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Care, Fifteen, Lasts

Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992,

- Barbara Stocking

topic: People, Lasts, Facts, Rio

I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Spring, Training, Lasts

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Fads, Lasts, Environmentalism

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

- Barry Humphries

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Secret, Lasts, Firsts

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

- Barry McGuigan

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Lasts

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

- Barry Sanders

topic: Feelings, Lasts, Return

Hello,Pepper. ItÂ´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isnÂ´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Lasts, Peppers, Hello

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: People, Want, Lasts

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

- Bella Abzug

topic: Women, Lasts, Next, Last Supper

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

- Ben Hecht

topic: Hair, Television, Lasts, Last Place

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Years, Lasts, Bars, New Company

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Years, Lasts, Feels

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Success, Lasts

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: World, Lasts, Said, Inheritance Tax, Income Tax

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Thinking, Lasts, Orthodoxy

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

- Bennett Cerf

topic: Night, Lasts, Detroit, String Quartets, Brahms

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

- Berenice Abbott

source: "Berenice Abbott: the photography trailblazer who had supersight" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2015.

topic: Fighting, Alive, Lasts, Last Minute

A good product can last forever.

- Bernard Arnault

topic: Forever, Lasts

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

- Bernard Berenson

topic: Government, Long, Lasts

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Humble, Lasts, Next, Humiliated

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Moving, Finding Yourself, Lasts, Last Place

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Men, Views, Lasts, Uniformity

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: World, Lasts, Savior

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Philosophy, Greek, Lasts

Things last so much longer than people.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

source: Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

topic: People, Lasts

How do you know when an apology is trueâ€”when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

- Beth Kephart

source: Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

topic: Mean, Apology, Lasts

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

- Bette Greene

source: Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”

topic: Blessing, Littles, Lasts

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

- Bette Midler

topic: Tacky, Ease, Lasts, Sleazes

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

- Betty Hutton

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, Lasts, Kind

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

- Betty Smith

topic: Children, Heartache, Lasts

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

- Betty White

topic: Years, Guy, Lasts, Resurgence

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

- Bianca Jagger

topic: Rights, Years, Lasts

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

- Bil Keane

source: "'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies", www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.

topic: Lasts, Entertainment, Comic

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

- Bill Mumy

topic: Thinking, Years, Lasts

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