Lasts Quotes - Page 12

• In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

  H. G. Wells

  Knowledge, World, Devotion

  4 Copy quote

• Life is worth Living
  Through every grain of it,
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Foundation, Grain

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who but knows
  How it goes!
  Life's a last year's Nightingale,
  Love's a last year's rose.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Years, Rose

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
  Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
  From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
  And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.39

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Hate, Teaching

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love, from its awful throne of patient power
  In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
  Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
  And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
  And folds over the world its healing wings.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Wise, Spring

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.441

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love will conquer at the last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Conquer

  "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After". Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Last Words

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.433, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
  And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
  In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
  They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
  And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
  At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
  The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
  And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Memories, Kissing

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

  157 Copy quote

  Show source

• Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast,
  That still the knot, in spite of death, does last;
  For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul,
  Prove well that on your part this bond is whole,
  So all we know of what they do above,
  Is that they happy are, and that they love.
  Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave,
  Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have;
  Well-chosen love is never taught to die,
  But with our nobler part invades the sky.

  Edmund Waller

  Life, Heart, Dark

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.115

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know not when the day shall be,
  I know not when our eyes may meet;
  What welcome you may give to me,
  Or will your words be sad or sweet,
  It may not be 'till years have passed,
  'Till eyes are dim and tresses gray;
  The world is wide, but, love, at last,
  Our hands, our hearts, must meet some day.

  Hugh Conway

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there
  is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as
  long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong
  enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Strong, Divorce

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

  Richard O'Brien

  Running, Race, Appreciate

  18 Copy quote

• I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

  Keith Moon

  Music, Unhappy, Twenties

  48 Copy quote

• We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, People, Tragedy

  "35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis". www.smithsonianmag.com. November 01, 2005.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

  Chuck Mangione

  Music, Hands, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Afternoon, Shrubs

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2713, Delphi Classics

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Patriotic, Names, Evil

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, Law, White

  72 Copy quote

• What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Lying, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.

  Hassan II of Morocco

  Inspirational, Peace, Kings

  33 Copy quote

• There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Peace, Understanding, Stories

  6 Copy quote

• "The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, Years, Civilization

  23 Copy quote

• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Poetry, Curiosity, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Men, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

  9 Copy quote

  Show source