Lasts Quotes - Page 28

• I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them. Be with them. Hug your children; You never know when it will be the last time.

  Tony Dungy

  Children, Athlete, Kids

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• We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Judging, Noble

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Men, Swings

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• 'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

  Charles Lyell

  Real, Science, Animal

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• All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, History, Development

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks”, p.220

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• The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Weakness, Fame

  "Annales" (AD 117), IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 256-259), 1922.

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• In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Wish, Causes

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.82, Commodius Vicus

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• Here at work, obviously, I make the most money of anyone on the show, so I try to be the first one here and the last one to leave. I have the crummiest office. I try to balance things out, spread it around.

  Jay Leno

  Money, Hard Work, Office

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

  Djuna Barnes

  Breakup, Lying, Love Is

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time.

  Uma Thurman

  Breakup, Feel Better, Thinking

  "9 Things Celebs Can Teach Us About Heartbreak", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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• A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Humility, Long, Simplicity

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• For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dull, Politician, Newspapers

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Found, Scoundrels, Backgrounds

  "The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 11: Collected Plays and Chesterton on Shaw". Book edited by Denis J. Conlon, 1989.

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• Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, True Love, First Love

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• I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

  Vera Brittain

  Spring, May, Young

  Vera Brittain (2008). “Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After”, Virago Press

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• The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest. ...Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, Struggle, Years

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• Peace and rest at length have come,
  All the day's long toil is past;
  And each heart is whispering, "Home,
  Home at last!"

  Thomas Hood

  Peace, Home, Heart

  Thomas Hood (1861). “The daughters of king Daher; and other poems”, p.62

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• Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Believe, Done

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• Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

  James Jeans

  Science, Humanity, Bottles

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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• We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

  Derek Jacobi

  Fall, Years, Differences

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• This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

  Trent Reznor

  Bullying, Right Now

  "Report: Nine Inch Nails" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Years, Careers

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• What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.

  Marc Trestman

  Coaching, Lifetime

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• Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever.

  Cool Papa Bell

  Baseball, Nice, Clothes

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