Last Words Quotes - Page 11

• The law must have the last word.

  Jacques Chirac

  Law, Lasts

  "France braced for 12th night of riots" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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• One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fighting, Slavery, Action

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• Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Magic, Lasts

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• A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Smart, Writing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3459, Delphi Classics

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• Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Attributed in "Men of Mathematics" by E. T. Bell, 1937.

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Lasts

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

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• 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.

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• So little done, so much to do.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Life, Business, Done

  Said to Lewis Michell on the day he died, in Lewis Michell Life of Rhodes (1910) vol. 2, ch. 39

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Common Sense, Psychology, Ordinary

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Sleep, Should Have

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

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• Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

  Vespasian

  Believe, Feet, Becoming

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• The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

  Anne Boleyn

  Kings, Queens, Simple

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• Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

  Rudolph Valentino

  Doctors, Puff, Powder

  "Biography/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President.

  Anton Cermak

  President, Glad

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• You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.

  Dutch Schultz

  Girl, Dog, Play

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• You might make that a double.

  Neville Heath

  Might

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• Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

  Nancy Astor

  Dying, My Birthday

  In J. Grigg Nancy Astor (1980) p. 184

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• To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.

  David Ferrie

  Sweet, Answers, Return

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• Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

  Lord Mountbatten

  Thinking, Ira, Target

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• Well, the Lord is going to get another one.

  John Eldon Smith

  Lord, Wells

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• Can you believe this crap ?

  Jon-Erik Hexum

  Believe, Crap

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• It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Powerful, Winning, Too Late

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• Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.

  Robert Kennedy

  Lifts

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• Don't mess with my money.

  Lowell Fulson

  Mess

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• Tape "Seinfeld" for me.

  Harvey Korman

  Tape

  Harvey Korman's last words, 2008.

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