Last Quotes - page 7

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. (Thom Gunn)
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. View quote
Nora Ephron
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
All service ranks the same with God, With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we there is no last nor first. View quote
Robert Browning
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart. View quote
Djuna Barnes
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!' (Emo Philips)
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. View quote
Woody Allen
Never think you've seen the last of anything. View quote
Eudora Welty
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. View quote
Chelsea Handler
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. View quote
Herodotus
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one. View quote
Ann Druyan
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. View quote
James Baldwin
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of. View quote
George Wallace
I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards. View quote
Huey Long
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. View quote
Henry Rollins
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. View quote
William L. Shirer