That Was The Last Straw Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Life in Australia would go on, and I would hear nothing, because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be.

Bill Bryson

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

Charles Dickens

#4. The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

George Soros

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

Laura Wiess

#6. It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

Arthur Helps

#7. I do what I always do when the day has shown me its worst: I make do.

Amy A. Bartol

#8. 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

#9. As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

Sue Mengers

#10. To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

Gayle Pemberton

#11. 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

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

Stephanie Danler

#13. 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

#14. I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

Garrison Keillor

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

Joshua Guess

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

Drew Barrymore

#19. There is no arrogance more harmful than one's certainty that their religious beliefs be compulsory for everyone.

F. Lee Barham

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

Mark Z. Danielewski

#21. 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

#22. On the contrary, knowing I AM inspires us to excel in every area of life. Further, the power of this "I am not" message is that when we compete, and hopefully win, we can avoid the pitfall of gaining the whole world and yet losing our souls.2 As

Louie Giglio

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

Damien Hirst

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

Debby Feo

#27. This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry ...

Gordon B. Hinckley

#28. 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

#29. No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,

Patrick Rothfuss

#30. There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

Chris Cleave

#31. When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

Liam Payne

#32. 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

#33. 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