Top 100 Last Word Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Last Word

#1. I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

#2. Last word in lonesome is me.

#3. Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff. They may crane their necks and turn their leaves all they want toward the sun, but gravity has the last word.

Andre Aciman

#4. Well, we'll have to agree to disagree." I hated that phrase. It was code for, "I know you're too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I'm going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.

Jess Lourey

#5. The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

#6. Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

Sarada Devi

#7. Honorable, Bernita mine. To look after those who can't look after themselves, to attend to duty rather than convenience. You have reminded me of what honor requires, and I'm grateful. That last word - grateful - wasn't one Nita heard very often.

Grace Burrowes

#8. Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word.

Eugene H. Peterson

#9. The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.

Christine Feehan

#11. Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Mason Cooley

#12. Fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Edward Abbey

#14. People who get this kind of result are ... " She looks over her shoulder like she expects someone to appear behind her. " ... are called ... Divergent." She says the last word so quietly that I almost don't hear it, and her tense, worried look returns.

Veronica Roth

#15. Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

John Casey

#16. Grace gets the last word.

Shane Claiborne

#17. So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

Ford Frick

#19. It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

Desmond Tutu

#20. I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

Saki

#21. For better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. 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

#23. I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

Dallas Willard

#24. Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Henry James

#25. From our first babblings to our last word,
we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Richard Paul Evans

#26. So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We complete in generosity
what an example of family happiness!

Leo Tolstoy

#27. It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.

Sarah Dessen

#28. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgement shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

Charlotte Bronte

#29. The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.

Edgar S. Brightman

#30. Horror!' "'His last word - to live with,' she murmured. 'Don't you understand I loved him - I loved him - I loved him!' "I pulled myself together and spoke slowly. "'The last word he pronounced

Joseph Conrad

#31. Let ... it ... go," he whispers, his voice a fierce, harsh sound in my hair. "No. No!" The last word is screamed. "You have to. You can't bleed it out. You can't keep pretending, drinking it down.

Jasinda Wilder

#32. Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

Jean Dubuffet

#33. I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.

Peter S. Beagle

#34. A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#35. Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

Ann Brashares

#36. Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Rabindranath Tagore

#37. Every last word is contagious,

Jericho Brown

#38. You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

John Buchan

#39. You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

Jennifer Donnelly

#40. Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity ... edit one more time!

C.K. Webb

#41. I never understood the whole
wanting-somebody-so-much-it-hurt thing,
he said, his breath catching on the last word.
But Drea, baby, I'm hurting.

Scarlett Cole

#42. The resurrection is the promise that death will not prevail, that nothingness does not have the last word. God promises to overcome it with life ... We can trust that God will overcome death because Jesus is the resurrection, because on the third day Jesus rose again, as the first of many.

Andrew Root

#43. It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Brooks Robinson

#44. Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Victor Hugo

#45. The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in changing places and times cannot progress further?

Rachel Held Evans

#46. We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

Wynton Marsalis

#47. History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#48. Life, laughter, and pleasure will be the last word rather than death, crying, and pain.

Jerry L. Walls

#49. One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Andre Gide

#50. Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word.

Lynn Cullen

#51. Tyranny is the desire to have the last word.

Marty Rubin

#52. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.

Kiera Cass

#53. Books that represent the last word on a topic are important. Books that represent one of the first words are even more important.

Jesper Roine

#54. One last word are you quite quite ure that - well not tomorrow of course and not after tomorrow but - well - some day any day you will not come to live with me I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries if you give me that microscopic hope.

Vladimir Nabokov

#55. Pay attention to fate ... It will always have the last word.

Lynn Cullen

#56. He was almost out, but being a man, he needed the last word. Slut.

C.D. Reiss

#57. Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge.

Willa Cather

#58. He took possession of my lips even before the last word left my mouth, taking them, tasting them. Claiming them in a way that was all male, all possession, all desire. No one had ever kissed me like that. No one.

Keri Arthur

#59. 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

#60. Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: 'What about those reviews then?'
'I don't read them.'
'Don't read them? You wrote them didn't you?

Antony Sher

#61. So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

Gilbert Ryle

#62. So much of a novelist's writing ... takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

Graham Greene

#63. It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.

Robin Olds

#64. I'm not wild ... pussy," I said, stumbling over the last word and feeling my face heat. Desperately, I tried searching for a word that adequately described exactly what I was and came up empty. "I'm ... dusty pussy," I finished with a sigh, feeling ridiculous.

Madeline Sheehan

#65. Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Jack London

#66. There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#67. Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

Jeff VanderMeer

#68. Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#69. His last word had been my name. A summons. And I had not responded.

Elie Wiesel

#70. The abuse does not define you or have the last word on your identity. Yes, it is part of your story, but not the end of your story.

Lindsey A. Holcomb

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

Robert A. Heinlein

#72. Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth.

Viktor E. Frankl

#73. Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.

Roy Kesey

#74. That is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

Evelyn Waugh

#75. The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

Vance Havner

#76. So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way
listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos ... .Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.

Taylor Swift

#77. Last word from her was that Paris, half of Omar's money, and none of him was suiting her just fine." She

Craig Johnson

#78. You never have known when to shut your hole, have ya, Minho? Always gotta have the bloody last word.

James Dashner

#79. The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Joyce Meyer

#80. Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.

Richard Dawkins

#81. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I

Elie Wiesel

#82. Lightwoods," Magnus said. "They always have to have the last word.

Cassandra Clare

#83. My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

Cheryl Strayed

#84. The law must have the last word.

Jacques Chirac

#85. Revolting' was the last word I ever spoke as someone who'd never kissed a girl.

David Mitchell

#86. I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

Henry David Thoreau

#87. Most nonfiction writers have a definitiveness complex. They feel that they are under some obligation - to the subject, to their honor, to the gods of writing - to make their article the last word. It's a commendable impulse, but there is no last word.

William Zinsser

#88. By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

Carlos Fuentes

#89. God rested from all his work which he created to do/make. The last word, this last 'to do' is for us, we are the partners in the completion of creation, it's not done yet.

Dennis Prager

#90. 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

#91. This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.

Odysseus Elytis

#92. All of it was proof that God would always have the last word when it came to life-and-death situations.

Karen Kingsbury

#93. Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

H. Rider Haggard

#94. Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

Louis Pasteur

#95. Florentino Ariza was left with the nagging suspicion that this was not her last word. He believed that when a woman says no, she is waiting to be urged before making her final decision, but with her he could not risk making the same mistake twice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez