Top 100 Never Lasts Quotes
#2. People like Josh Bennett and I don't get perfect. Most of the time, we don't even get remotely tolerable. And that's why it scares me. Because, even if there was such a thing to begin with, perfect never lasts.
Katja Millay
#4. 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
#5. Love never lasts. Love is like a suntan--it either burns you or it fades away.
Peco Gaskovski
#6. The thing is you're looking for something two-dimensional and not quite real. It never lasts. But you can't expect something unreal to last anyway, can you?
Haruki Murakami
#7. I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs ... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.
J. Cole
#8. The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.
Michelle Hodkin
#9. Democracy ... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
#10. [B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever.
Steve Hagen
#11. I'm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
Andy Warhol
#14. This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
Bruce Springsteen
#15. The magic fades too fast
the scent of summer never lasts
the nights turn hollow and vast
but nothing remains...nothing lasts.
Sanober Khan
#16. Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.
Taylor Swift
#17. Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Mr. Sand, do you think it's possible to fall in love in the space of a single day?"
He smiled. "I wouldn't know. I only fall in love at night. Never lasts beyond breakfast, though.
Tessa Dare
#19. I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama
#20. I remember love vaguely, I think I can recall what it was like, and I remember that it never lasts.
George R R Martin
#21. If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
Travis Bradberry
#22. Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and the best of them is, that it never lasts. Ha! ha!
Charles Dickens
#23. The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.
The foam that floats in the pools
Now gathering, now vanishing
Never lasts long. So it is with man
and all his dwelling places on this earth.
Kamo No Chomei
#24. Beautiful things never last. That's why fireflies flash.
Ron Pope
#25. Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
John Heywood
#26. I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.
Beth Ditto
#27. In general I do not draw well with literary men
not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
Lord Byron
#28. Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
Anton Chekhov
#29. Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again.
James Herriot
#31. never forget that a mother's hug lasts a lifetime, long after she lets you go.
Emily March
#32. I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.
Alec Guinness
#33. To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius
#34. There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Joseph Conrad
#35. For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
Orson Scott Card
#36. I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
Adolf Hitler
#37. [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
Fisher Ames
#38. Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Trent Lott
#39. You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.
Robert Shaw
#40. The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words ... to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.
Anthony W. Ivins
#41. I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.
Andy Warhol
#42. When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all.
Nicola Yoon
#43. There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made the decision never go to a ski coach for mental help. I said last season I will try a mental coach and see how it works.
Michaela Dorfmeister
#44. [M]y father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.
John S. Hall
#45. Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.
Edgar Wright
#46. For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
Fredrik Backman
#47. Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
Christopher Hitchens
#48. As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.
John Wesley
#49. I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.
Kasey Kahne
#50. True love is unbounded, unmitigated, and lasts forever. It never diminishes with time and distance.
Debasish Mridha
#51. I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last.
Janet Jackson
#52. Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.
Paul Auster
#53. If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.
Roger Crawford
#54. Never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
Mike Markkula
#55. You have to be loyal and true to one another, or your love will never last!
Michael Jackson
#56. St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'
Alphonsus Liguori
#57. The kind of love we share never dims or fades." He brushed his lips along mine. When my breath caught, he whispered, "It's the kind of love that lasts forever.
Alicia Rae
#58. I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
Huey Long
#59. I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.
Artie Lange
#60. There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens.
Robert Pattinson
#61. If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last.
Jeff Dunham
#63. And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.
George Washington
#64. Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.
Louis C.K.
#65. You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.
Kenneth Patchen
#66. I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.
Todd Solondz
#67. Carrying a child is a sacred thing. There is a bond established between mother and child in the womb that lasts forever. The truth of this bond can never be erased.
Daniel Black
#68. When the zone calls, you must listen.
You never know how long being in the zone lasts.
It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.
JohnA Passaro
#69. Patiently persevere in the face of hardship hoping for a good outcome because you never know how many dead hearts you will bring to life in the process. No hardship lasts forever. There is always an end.
Babar Ahmad
#70. A thought enters your brain and lasts an average of five seconds. The only way to keep it is to grab hold of it and claim it. The same applies to dreams. We forget most of our dreams because we never take the actions needed to make them our own.
Toni Sorenson
#71. Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.
Queen Latifah
#72. That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#73. They can kill us, even down to the last of us, but they can't kill - can never kill - what lasts in us.
Rick Yancey
#74. As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
Bill Vaughan
#75. Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#77. As long as I'm alive, you'll never see the last of Lightning!
Motomu Toriyama
#79. Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.
James Montgomery
#82. Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#83. It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.
Mark Twain
#84. It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
Robert Frost
#85. The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
Henry Fielding
#86. Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.
Jethro Tull
#87. I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.
Abbas Kiarostami
#88. Isn't it the rarest thing? Never mind the whale migrations, or total eclipses of suns and moons: love that lasts, and is returned in equal measure, is the rarest thing she knows of.
Susan Fletcher
#89. Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.
Tyler Shields
#90. One last toast, to our friend, Owen Hart. We'll never forget you, buddy.
Jim Ross
#91. I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.
Shelby Lynne
#92. 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
#94. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.
Billy Eckstine
#95. I'm the last person to tell my friends to go see something I'm in. I could care less if friends of mine never saw anything I'm in.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#96. Whoever thought to name a candy bar Butterfinger has either never seen Last Tango In Paris or seen it far too many times.
Dana Gould
#97. You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.
Horace Kephart
#98. You never worry about the last laugh if you've been laughing the whole time
Drake
#99. I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
Mike Tyson
#100. I honestly just love Greek yogurt and honey, and berries, and some KIND granola or something because that's always something that I'm down to eat. But everything else, like anything savory just has to be ordered really last minute because I never know.
Chrissy Teigen
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