Quotes About Lasted

#1. We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.

Linda McCartney

#2. Hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organisations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.

George Orwell

#3. I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.

Henri Barbusse

#4. The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

George Thorogood

#5. The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say and felt you didn't belong anywhere, books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

Dean Koontz

#6. I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Harriet Tubman

#7. He felt oddly powerless, as if his entire life were in the fingers of two faceless players maneuvering pieces in the same patterns on some vast board in a game that, for all he knew, had lasted for eternity.

David Eddings

#8. Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#9. It was Alec who brought their lips together.
Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty.
The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

Lynn Flewelling

#10. So why has this potentially self-destructive system of economic arrangements lasted? Probably because of habits of restraint, honesty and moderation which accompanied its emergence.

Tony Judt

#11. To be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death - or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.

Eoin Colfer

#12. That was the thing about grief. It wasn't something you worked through once. It was something you worked through over and over again. The effects of losing someone lasted a lifetime.

Stephanie Reid

#13. Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Nas

#14. Now was the time for now. Now was one of those rare and precious moments with which one was gifted from time to time. That was all it was. A moment. But it was one to be enjoyed to the full while it lasted and treasured for a lifetime after it was over.

Mary Balogh

#15. I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.

Bent Saether

#16. Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.

Will Rogers

#17. He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

Alice Hoffman

#18. I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

Jeremy Piven

#19. This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Grace Lee Boggs

#20. And he sank into reverie, which lasted a long time.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

Wendell Berry

#22. Control never lasted. Eventually the illusion of time, the pull of gravity, and catastrophic events reminded everyone of their mortality and their utter insignificance in the great big world. Life was nothing more than one lone blink. Here today. Gone tomorrow.

Jewel E. Ann

#23. I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

Erin Morgenstern

#24. I've actually been in situations where I've turned down a lot of money to continue on, in certain shows, or to do something that would have lasted years when I didn't even like it. I didn't want to be in any one spot for years, unless I really believed in it, and I really believe in 'Being Human.'

Samuel Witwer

#25. The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

Elmore Leonard

#26. That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.

Diana Krall

#27. Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.

John Irving

#28. By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

Sallie Tisdale

#29. This splendid vision dwelt in her memory as the most beautiful thing that it was possible to dream, so that now she strove to recall her sensation. That still lasted, however, but in a less exclusive fashion and with a deeper sweetness. Her soul, tortured by

Gustave Flaubert

#30. If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Bill Watterson

#31. the combat career of a new German pilot now lasted, on average, less than a month.

Rick Atkinson

#32. The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Hedy Lamarr

#33. It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

David Pajo

#34. Like many people who lasted any length of time in the rescue professions, she'd worn out the 'if' factor pretty quickly. You were where you were. You went where you went. You did what you could. Mostly, people were better off after you showed up than before.

Nevada Barr

#35. (..) and they would imprint upon each other's lips such a long and languishing kiss, that a little straw cigar might have been smoked during the time it lasted.

Nikolai Gogol

#36. We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

John Berger

#37. Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

Sargent Shriver

#38. Yes there would be danger. But wasn't that how things worked? Nothing was promised. People held on tight to the things they loved and cherished, enjoying the ride for as long as it lasted. There were no guarantees in life, only possibilities.

Aline Hunter

#39. For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

Moby

#40. Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Fisher Ames

#41. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

Muhammad Ali

#42. The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Edward Abbey

#43. There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

Alan Hovhaness

#44. I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

Wolfman Jack

#45. This story of benign judicial neglect of Nazis and collaborators forms a striking contrast with the systematic repression of the Greek Left, which lasted for over two decades.

Mark Mazower

#46. Words could hurt worse than any stone, and the bruises lasted longer. Harboring

Nevada Barr

#47. The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

Matthew Of Edessa

#48. I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.

Anthony Warlow

#49. But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.

Nick Mason

#50. That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

Gordon Korman

#51. I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.

W.C. Fields

#52. He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.

Dennis Miller

#53. She was partial to emeralds; she said they were the single thing that remained constant, always green, always the same ... My mother had been right, it was one thing that lasted, the one thing we could depend on. Other than our love for each other, it was all we had right now.

Alice Hoffman

#54. The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

Chris Brown

#55. I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.

Jason Flemyng

#56. Daisy Bowman," he said unevenly, "I'd spend eternity in hell for one hour with you." "Is that how long it takes? An hour?" His reply was rueful. "Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute.

Lisa Kleypas

#57. Frye's influence on me lasted twenty years but came to an abrupt halt on my thirty-seventh birthday, July 11, 1967, when I awakened from a nightmare and then passed the entire day in composing a dithyramb, The Covering Cherub; or, Poetic Influence.

Harold Bloom

#58. I might not have been the brightest bulb in the box, but I lasted longer and provided more light in the long run.

Patricia H. Graham

#59. I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Diane Mott Davidson

#60. Their kisses had gone on and on - cheeks, neck, mouth, and tongue. Seconds ... minutes ... hours. Then they'd start all over again. Adults were too fixed on the final goal to take that kind of time. Only teenagers afraid of the next step exchanged kisses that lasted forever.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#61. You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

Stacy Schiff

#62. The decision took a moment, but it lasted a lifetime

Conn Iggulden

#63. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Uta Hagen

#64. I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.

Siobhan Davis

#65. Nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Nicholas Sparks

#66. She was why none of his relationships had ever lasted. He hadn't left part of himself on the river, he'd left part of himself with her.

Laura Trentham

#67. With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.

Kathryn Lasky

#68. The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

Harold Prince

#69. Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a couple of months.

Michael Glawogger

#70. I've had cartons of milk that have lasted longer than most of my relationships.

Jodi Picoult

#71. You don't sound very well Owen." I pointed out to him. "IF JESUS HAD TO BE BORN ON A DAY LIKE THIS. I DON'T THINK HE'D HAVE LASTED LONG ENOUGH TO BE CRUCIFIED." Owen said.

John Irving

#72. I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

David Bowie

#73. I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#74. As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

Eberhard Weber

#75. I have been a widower for nigh fifty years, but I am never alone. We had eight good years together, and they've lasted me the entire eighty. It's like that, you see, when you can marry where your heart lies.

Grace Burrowes

#76. I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

Clifford D. Simak

#77. Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

Ayn Rand

#78. I was surprised that everyone calls it 'morning sickness,' because it lasted all day. For me, it was even worse at night. During my first two pregnancies, I felt so nauseous all day that I could only eat plain toast and bland foods - no proteins.

Kourtney Kardashian

#79. All of my marriages lasted seven years.

Elliott Erwitt

#80. There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

Prince Charles

#81. The scream lasted for about a heartbeat, and then recognition flooded in - and relief.
"Oliver?" Great. She was relieved to see Oliver. The world was officially topsy-turvy, cats
were living with dogs, and life as she knew it was probably over.

Rachel Caine

#82. He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love.

P.D. James

#83. Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud..

Nelson Mandela

#84. "In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

Lewis Carroll

#85. Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

Serge Ibaka

#86. I enjoyed 'Roswell' a lot, and I had a lot of fun playing Jim Valenti. I had never done a show that lasted as long as that - that one lasted three years.

William Sadler

#87. All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.

Lauren Myracle

#88. September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.

Jenny Wingfield

#89. No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

David Nicholls

#90. Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

Ernest Hemingway,

#91. It lasted for a long time, I believe."
"A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end.

Isaac Asimov

#92. God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

Stephen King

#93. The narration had lasted for the better part of an hour despite Markus's increasingly frequent and obvious glances at his Swiss watch, and left all the others in a strange combination of spellbound, bored, horrified, and bemused.

Neal Stephenson

#94. She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

#95. Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

Tom Turner

#96. I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.

Alexa Vega

#97. Friends, huh?" Rush said, coming to stand beside me.
"Yeah. She's decided we can be friends," I told him ...
"I tried the friends thing with Blaire once. It lasted less than a week before I was stripping her naked in the back of my Range Rover. Good luck with that.

Abbi Glines

#98. An agonising, strange, soul-revolting silence lasted for three minutes. Oh, those three minutes!

Anton Chekhov

#99. THE DAY WAS PERFECT: low eighties, bluebird sky, the slightest touch of a breeze. If the Minnesota August lasted all year, nobody would live anywhere else.

John Sandford

#100. I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.

Robert Barry