Famous Quotes & Sayings

Markus Zusak

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

If we can show this lasts weeks ... we've just tapped into probably a billion-dollar market. It's enormous.

James A. Baldwin

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Jacques Santer

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Christopher Lasch

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

George Harrison

A cloudburst doesn't last all day. . .

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

Erma Bombeck

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Euripides

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

George Pataki

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

Chris Terrio

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Chris Tucker

That’s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!

Chris Kattan

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that

George W. Bush

That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

Henry Miller

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

Cassandra Clare

Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.

George Eliot

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Christoph Waltz

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

Jeanette Winterson

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Jennifer Stone

Longing is all that lasts.

Jello Biafra

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

Jeannette Rankin

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Georges Danton

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

George Bernard Shaw

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Erich Fromm

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Erica Jong

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Eoin Colfer

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

Jay Asher

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

Ginger Rogers

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

Harry Chapin

I finally like myself, at last I like myself.