Last Quotes - page 9

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time, ... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. (Dick Cheney)

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Kurt Vonnegut

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Christopher Hitchens

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Wendell Phillips

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed That I may give for every day A good account at last.

Isaac Watts

You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.

Ray Charles

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Havelock Ellis

The sadness will last forever.

Vincent van Gogh

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary. (Erich von Manstein)

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on Judge not the play before the play is done Her plot hath many changes every day Speaks a new scene the last act crowns the play.

Francis Quarles

Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind.

Gottlob Frege

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Søren Kierkegaard

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

Indoors or out, no one relaxes; In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year.

Ogden Nash

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

Marcel Proust

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Mark Twain

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. (Jackie Mason)

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Leonardo da Vinci

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Tryon Edwards

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.

Walter Scott

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