Lasts Quotes

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Adams

  Suicide, Freedom, Suicidal

  Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.4, Random House

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• A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Drinking, Divorce

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• There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

  David Eagleman

  Names, Three, Body

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from Feb 15, 2012

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• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Suspense Novels

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Forever, Achieve, Vigilant

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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  Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

  Henry Moore

  Change, Creativity, Creative

  "Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions". Book by Eric Maisel, ‎Ann Maisel, p. 95, 2010.

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• People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

  Paul Hindemith

  Music, People, Enemy

  Paul Hindemith (1969). “A composer's world, horizons and limitations”

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• This is the last of earth! I am content.

  John Quincy Adams

  Death, Dying, Earth

  Quoted in William H. Seward, Eulogy of John Quincy Adams Before Legislature of New York (1848)

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• Nothing lasts forever

  Sidney Sheldon

  Forever, Nothing Lasts Forever

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “The Other Side of Midnight”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Looks, Racist

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• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sarcastic, Fitness, Sarcasm

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• Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Music, Light, Dying

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• The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

  Bum Phillips

  Life, Motivational, Volleyball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Comes And Goes, Bigotry

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• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

  Denis Diderot

  Power, Long, Denial

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Suspense, Terrible

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• Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

  Douglas Coupland

  Time, Long, Very Good

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• The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.

  Blake Ross

  Entrepreneur, Next, Bigs

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