Quotes About Last Straw

#1. Well, that episode was the last straw, as my mom explains it, and the Nun Boss basically fired my mom, but even though she was a failed nun and never got to marry God, she went home feeling as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

Judy Greer

#2. Isn't that the last straw; for not only did we have to suffer the unspeakableness of slavery, but the satisfaction to be had from "We made you bastards rich" is taken away, too.

Jamaica Kincaid

#3. When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.

Alex Steffen

#4. Stress can wear away at you for a long time, and the last straw can be the smallest thing.

Joshua Guess

#5. I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.

Rose Macaulay

#6. Hey, new girl. You know the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the same thing as the last straw?

Stephanie Danler

#7. First time was instinct. I hear O'Leary go, "Jesus," and there's a skinny brown dog lapping up blood the same way he'd lap up water from a bowl. It wasn't American blood, but still, there's that dog, lapping it up. And that's the last straw, I guess, and then it's open season on dogs.

Phil Klay

#8. And then I noticed the small cake that still sat uneaten next to him. And another in front of his mother. That was the last straw. I fully disliked them. How dare they leave perfectly good cake untouched?

Tarun Shanker

#9. It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Charles Dickens

#10. There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#11. But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

Alfred Doblin

#12. Sometimes the last straw is heavier than it looks.

Debby Feo

#13. But performing in The Room was, by this point, like drinking the very last dregs of something through a ting straw: It took a lot of effort and you barely tasted it.

Greg Sestero

#14. It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

John Hill Burton

#15. By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. People are the world's strangest creature.

CLAMP

#17. If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#18. Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Robert Dallek

#19. He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been ... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.

Susan Kay

#20. She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.

John Eccles

#22. Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

Laura Wiess

#23. But every home is its own island with its own secrets.

Harlan Coben

#24. Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

Dane DeHaan

#25. We are spiritual beings walking around in these crazy skin suits. Our insides are much more important than our outsides.

Rory Freedman

#26. Having faith doesn't mean I have all the answers. It means trusting God especially in the midst of uncertainty.

Lysa TerKeurst

#27. I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

Alexandre Dumas

#28. There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

Jack Straw

#29. My usual self is a very unusual self.

Shelagh Delaney

#30. The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.

Janet Fitch

#31. The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

Marcus Aurelius

#32. I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves - and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.

Spencer W. Kimball