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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. (William Hazlitt)
Words are the only things that last forever. View quote
William Hazlitt
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. View quote
Leonard Cohen
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. View quote
Colin Powell
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. View quote
George F. Kennan
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. View quote
John Ruskin
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. (Samuel Johnson)
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. View quote
Steven Wright
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. View quote
Steven Wright
He who hesitates is last. View quote
Mae West
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. View quote
Timothy Leary
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. View quote
William Cobbett
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet ... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times. View quote
Louis Sullivan
I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders. View quote
Richard J. Daley
When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. View quote
Dr. Seuss
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. (Oscar Wilde)
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. View quote
Stephen Covey
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. View quote
Mickey Spillane