Top 100 The Last Quotes
#1. The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious
that is, a disease not understood
in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.
Susan Sontag
#2. He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss was the last swing, the final impact, and he gave in finally, felled.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
#3. In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#4. 90% of the world's data was created in the last two years
Marc Benioff
#5. Have you returned for me? Is this the last flash before starting anew? Will it hurt? Will it matter if it does? Was I kind enough? Did I love with more than fit inside me?
Tyler Knott Gregson
#7. I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.
America Ferrera
#8. They say you can't read the next chapter of your life, if you keep re reading the last one. But then every car has a rear-view mirror.
Anonymous
#9. Now, the whole world hears
Or shall hear,
surely shall hear, at the last,
Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,
That promise faithful:
"Fear not, little flock!
It is your Father's will and joy, to give
To you, the Kingdom"!
Matthew Arnold
#10. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
John Denham
#11. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#12. This is my favorite time of day. When the sun is setting and the last of its fiery fingers caress the water line before relinquishing their hold to the darkness of the night. And I can watch as the stars pop out, one by one, to pinprick the sky with their silvery light.
J.A. Souders
#13. I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.
David Beckham
#14. It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.
Gustav Meyrink
#15. The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
Albert J. Nock
#16. The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
Lester R. Brown
#17. I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
David Ogden Stiers
#18. The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.
Tahir Shah
#19. A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Pam Brown
#20. The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
James D. Watson
#21. One lie... and so perfect... but it's caught!????
Naah, he is clever... if it have been so good lie... it means it's not first or the last... probably it's the lie in the middle.
Deyth Banger
#22. Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V.S. Naipaul
#23. It is necessary to point out that we live in times in which extremity is simply the last remaining form of sanity in an increasingly mad world.
Chilton Williamson
#24. The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.
Ian Chappell
#25. Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.
Neil Gaiman
#26. He didn't miss them. He didn't miss any of his life, really, especially the last year. Time had simply been a bookmark. Something that held his place while he waited to finish the story.
Mary Lindsey
#27. The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
Leon Eisenberg
#28. I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt
#29. Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.
Pipilotti Rist
#30. You cannot start a new chapter until you close the last one.
Alok Jagawat
#32. The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
Tori Amos
#33. Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.
Hodding Carter
#34. The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me.
Jonathan Brown
#35. How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
Paul Celan
#36. She brought the box back into the dining room and showed it to Emery. "Which ones go here?"
Amusement touched his eyes - that seemed to be their preferred emotion - and he took the pen and paper from her, finishing the last three symbols himself as he chewed.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#37. I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.
Jean Kerr
#38. The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.
Dwight L. Moody
#39. A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
David Einhorn
#40. the greatest thing about having so many laws was that you could pick and choose, and move on to the next when the last lost its magic.
Jennifer Traig
#41. I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried
Acha Salim
#42. I've spent the last two hours worried that you were bleeding to death in a ditch," Evie continued. "Now that I know you're okay, I just want you to be bleeding to death in a ditch."
"Aww, Lamb Chop, you missed me.
Libba Bray
#43. I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
Terry Pratchett
#44. He walked, looking about him angrily and distractedly. All his ideas now seemed to be circling round some single point, and he felt that there really was such a point, and that now, now, he was left facing that point - and for the first time, indeed, during the last two months.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?
Chip Heath
#46. It's real hard to come up with something unique. We've seen just about everything over the last 10 years.
Ricky Davis
#47. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#48. Death by bush," I whisper.
"What did you say?" Dylan asks confused.
"The last thing that man saw before he almost died was my bush.
Ella Dominguez
#49. I have had a front row seat to observe Darren's success over the last few years and never fully knew the keys to his achievement. He has unselfishly revealed his secrets with The Compound Effect so that others can learn from his success. In my eyes, it is more valuable than gold!
Ron White
#51. I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
Jeff Dunham
#52. Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely.
Jean Ferris
#53. The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
Jerry Saltz
#54. I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.
Boris Yeltsin
#55. Do you know what I did to the last guy that called me Tinkerbelle?"
"Slept with him?"
Darryl was silent for a second. "After that.
Dani Alexander
#56. The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.
Vince Gilligan
#57. Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years
Christopher Eccleston
#58. When was the last time we had sex?" Logan's question was so blunt and unexpected it had Tate stumbling over his response for a second, and when he didn't answer, Logan continued, "You don't know, do you?" The
Ella Frank
#59. Kane couldn't remember the last time he'd had a real conversation with a female. His chats with women consisted of sentences like "Do you like that, babe?" or "Roll over, I want to screw you from behind.
Elle Kennedy
#60. The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it's perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it's only absolutely perfect when it's falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.
David Mitchell
#61. We had no idea it would be the last time we would ever be able to walk around L.A. without feeling like we were in a fishbowl, isolated and on display.
Duff McKagan
#62. Nico is working with someone who is close to us and I was trying to play the role so I could find out. At first, he was cool and acted as if sex was the last thing on his mind, but after I gave birth he started to rape me on a regular because I cried for you. He wouldn't even let me go to
Mz. Lady P
#63. I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Todd Phillips
#64. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
William Topaz McGonagall
#65. Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.
Sarada Devi
#66. Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.
Peter Ackroyd
#67. If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall
John Green
#69. It took two days to cross that ashen scabland. The road beyond fell away on every side. It's snowing, the boy said. He looked at the sky. A single gray flake sifting down. He caught it in his hand and watched it expire there like the last host of christendom.
Cormac McCarthy
#70. I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
Bobby Farrelly
#71. Despite their common reputation as agents of God's will, forces of good, and the gold standard for morality, all the angels Dean had met over the last year had been shifty, manipulative dicks. Except Cas, of course.
Rebecca Dessertine
#72. The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
Donald Judd
#73. I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
Gail Simmons
#74. I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.
Deion Sanders
#75. The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free ...
Nia Long
#76. We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#77. That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#78. Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.
Clement Of Alexandria
#79. You can be intensely aggravating ... " His expression struck me as closer to boredom than aggravation. "And somehow I suspect this isn't the first time you've been told that."
"Nope," I smiled mischievously. "Nor the last ...
M.A. George
#80. The first shall be the last. Humiliation precedes elevation.
Sunday Adelaja
#81. The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.
Wendy Mass
#82. While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
Eliot Spitzer
#83. He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased."
Jonathan Swift
#84. Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.
William Barrett
#85. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
Vivienne Westwood
#86. Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
Confucius
#87. The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#88. When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.
Jodi Picoult
#89. I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.
Billy Graham
#90. But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
Terry Kath
#91. If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.
James Hopwood Jeans
#92. I had some experience when I joined 'The Sopranos' in the last season. My character married Christopher, and everyone loved Adriana. I knew what it was like to join a very beloved, secretive show and following a very iconic character.
Cara Buono
#93. To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
George Mallory
#94. I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.
Regis Philbin
#95. I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
Lata Mangeshkar
#96. There was this cold monster inside him, this beast that was impossible to spit out. However hard he fought, however much he denied it, tried to make each morning the first rather than the last, he was waging a war he had lost in advance.
Caryl Ferey
#97. I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.
Ralph Stanley
#98. The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
Mickey Spillane
#99. Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.
Louis Leakey
#100. Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.
Anthony Foxx
