Lasts Quotes - Page 29

• The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; it hides secrets that in a moment, in a little while, it will tell.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Dream, Spring, Winter

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• You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

  Sean Faircloth

  Atheist, Light, Shining

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• First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.

  Branislav Nusic

  First Love, Love Is, Love At First Sight

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• In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.

  Carl Sagan

  Christian, Atheist, Reality

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.528, Ballantine Books

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• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

  Mark McCumber

  Attitude, Golf, Swings

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• You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

  Walter Hagen

  Heart, Golf, Years

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• I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

  James McKeen Cattell

  Sports, War, Night

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• One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh - a process taking (say) 500 years.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Thinking, Years

  Letter to Gamel Brenan (September 1, 1945), "The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell" edited by Nicholas Griffin, (p. 410), 2002.

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• At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.

  Heather McHugh

  Inspirational Love, Kissing, Wave

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• Fight to the last gasp.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Fighting

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• The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Self, Liberty

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.458

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• Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Principles

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Journey, Waiting

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• I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.

  Al Forman

  Birthday, Humorous, Fans

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• Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Long, Storm

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 31

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• A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Political, Aristocracy

  Speech at Newcastle, 9 Oct. 1909, in The Times 11 Oct. 1909

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• Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.

  Paul Cellucci

  Perseverance, Struggle, Sacrifice

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• Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.

  Tupac Shakur

  Strong, Hate, Thug

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• His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Kings, Men, Justice

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.28, Chicago Review Press

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• Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.

  Pope Leo XII

  Coffee, Dark, Waiting

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• Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Anger, Trying

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• Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Congratulations, Struggle

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• Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Disappointment, Winning

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• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

  Ben Jonson

  Truth, Disappointment, Envy

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