Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

Robert Carlyle

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Rob Bell

No one has the last word other than God.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Samuel Richardson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Vladimir Nabokov

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Wolfgang Puck

Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

I just want to make sure it lasts me the rest of my life so I don't have to return to work.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Jonathan Tropper

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

Kenneth H. Cooper

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Kelley Armstrong

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

Khaled Hosseini

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

Jonathan Swift

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Harvey Cox

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Louise Erdrich

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Jacques Lacan

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

Henry Rollins

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

James Joyce

If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

James Russell Lowell

It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

Ludwig van Beethoven

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

John Barnes

If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing,

Og Mandino

I will live this day as if it is my last

Emile M. Cioran

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

Ellen Glasgow

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

Kyle Whittingham

Nothing lasts forever. One streak was not going to go to infinity, that's obvious.

That's something that lasts until the end of life.

Ivica Kostelic

It lasts forever. Usually the chairlift only runs until 4. Today it ran until 9. It was really hard.

John Green

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

John Green

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.