Last Words Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

  Peter Medawar

  Political, Mind, Progress

  Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Exeter, September 3, 1969.

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• Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Excellence

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

  Alexander Berkman

  Lying, Struggle, Men

  Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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• The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Church, Lasts

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• What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Famous Last Words, Enormous, Knows

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.

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• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

  J. L. Austin

  Ordinary, Lasts, Language

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• The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

  Joyce Meyer

  Apology, Way, Lasts

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2013

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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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  When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

  Garrison Keillor

  Country, Dog, Sleep

  "We Are Still Married : Stories & Letters". Book by Garrison Keillor, "The Meaning of Life" (p. 217), 1989.

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• This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lying, Mean, People

  "No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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