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Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious! (Doug Stanhope)
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. View quote
William James
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing. View quote
William James
The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur. View quote
Kofi Annan
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible. View quote
William Hazlitt
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species. View quote
William Hazlitt
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed – thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it. (Reinhard Selten)
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. View quote
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life. View quote
Paulo Coelho
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on. View quote
Harold Wilson
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
I'm not a prude, I just want some respect (that's right) So close the door if you want me to respond Cause privacy is my middle name My last name is control No, my first name ain't baby It's Janet - Ms. Jackson, if you're nasty. View quote
Janet Jackson
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
. . . it was the last weakness he meant to indulge in and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. (George Eliot)
I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing. View quote
Ayn Rand
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge. View quote
Maxfield Parrish