Lasts Quotes - Page 25

• Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Overcoming, Magnus Bane

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.” She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.

  Rick Riordan

  Love You, Annabeth, Ears

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• I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Tired, Years

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• Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

  Michael Jackson

  Not Good Enough, Wells, Last Time

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• But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, School, Fire

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• He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.

  Veronica Roth

  Voice, Looks, Able

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• Enjoy him while it lasts," I called. "Apparently he has Girlfriend ADD." She looked away, but not before I caught the blush staining her cheeks.

  Gena Showalter

  Girlfriend, Add, Caught

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.468, Harlequin

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• She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

  Holly Black

  Expression, Pages, Needs

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• If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo." "No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here." "I swear.

  Ann Aguirre

  Love You, Fighting, Feet

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• Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

  Albert Camus

  Anger, Done, Argument

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• To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Hands, Long

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.540, Stanford University Press

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• I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.

  Michael Eisner

  Positive, Philosophy, Fall

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• Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

  Ken Kesey

  Time, Wind, Spiders

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.191, Penguin

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• Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Beautiful, Time, Sorry

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”

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• Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Time, Growth, Decay

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

  Alison Uttley

  Time, Brother, Real

  1948 Carts and Candlesticks.

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• However we pass Time, he passes still,
  Passing away whatever the pastime,
  And, whether we use him well or ill,
  Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Past, Giving

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• Who can undo
  What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
  Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
  Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
  Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Sunset, Winning

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• It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

  George Eliot

  Time, Years, Mindfulness

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Time, Retirement

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.49

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• Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

  Horace

  Anniversary, Wedding, Unbroken

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• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Respect, Dignity

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

  Eric Schmidt

  Business, Real, Believe

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Death, Opportunity, Keys

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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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