Top 100 The Last Word Quotes
#1. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
Linda Evangelista
#2. I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.
Shah Rukh Khan
#3. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.
Howard Thurman
#4. The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
Joseph Joubert
#5. Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.
Marcus Garvey
#7. We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#8. I can't believe Sadie's going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must've really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.
Rick Riordan
#9. In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions ... Peace is still possible ...
Roger Etchegaray
#10. To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
William Lyon Phelps
#11. 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
#12. There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
Jim Rohn
#13. 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
#14. Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.
Dejan Stojanovic
#15. Let only the young come,
Says the sea.
Let them kiss my face
And hear me.
I am the last word
And I tell
Where storms and stars come from.
Carl Sandburg
#16. The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word.
Hollisa Alewine
#17. The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.
John Hart
#18. This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word ... that is what has upheld the morale of our people, to know that in the end good will prevail.
Desmond Tutu
#19. Because she is dead!" She screamed the last word so loudly it burned in her throat. "Because she is dead, and I am left with my worthless life!
Sarah J. Maas
#20. Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
Ai Weiwei
#21. Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
Barbara Kruger
#22. The only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
Erica Jong
#23. God bless you! Well, go, love Ivan! was the last word that burst from Mitya.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#24. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#25. Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.
Joan Didion
#26. You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to ... If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation.
Warren Sapp
#27. Let's get my part of this over with," Vlad said shortly. "And if the name 'Buffy' comes out of my mouth, it will be the last word you ever hear.
Jeaniene Frost
#28. The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F.L. Lucas
#30. You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.
Anthony Marra
#31. Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.
Eric Drooker
#32. 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
#33. Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#35. Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri Aurobindo
#36. It is always Time that has the last word.
Marty Rubin
#37. It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life - with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#38. And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.
Suzanne Collins
#39. No one has the last word other than God.
Rob Bell
#40. Who can know the ending until the last word has been written? Everything might change with the last word.
Lauren Kate
#41. And," Mae added, voice prim, "if you try to brag about this, no one's going to believe you. No one will believe someone like me would sleep with someone like you." That was the gut punch. It was also the last word, because he couldn't muster another response.
Richelle Mead
#42. I'm so sorry, I continue. And it's like the last word is a hurdle and I can't leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob.
David Levithan
#43. A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#44. The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
Philip Kitcher
#45. Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace ... Peace will be the last word of history.
Pope John Paul II
#47. As exits go, that's a good one. It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.
Charlaine Harris
#48. he leaves me alone after a kiss to the top of my head but not before I have the last word. "Tweedlewart." "What?" "You're a tweedlewart." "Is that supposed to be insulting, Tessie?" "It sounded a little bit more intimidating in my head.
Blair Holden
#50. Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.
Harold Holzer
#51. Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.
Roger Ailes
#52. I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
B.F. Skinner
#53. Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J.L. Austin
#54. Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
Joyce Meyer
#55. Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.
Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell
#56. Tao sidled up to Ryan as they approached the buffet. "Quick question," the Head Enforcer asked quietly. "What would happen if I asked Makenna out?"
With a calm he didn't feel, Ryan said, "I'd rip out your throat before the last word escaped your mouth."
Tao nodded. "Thought so.
Suzanne Wright
#57. The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. She bellowed the last word with such soul-deep hatred that he felt it like a punch to the gut.
Sarah J. Maas
#60. Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.
Hugh B. Brown
#61. An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
Sarah Dessen
#62. Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
Thomas Nagel
#63. The forest remembers that the last word can only be
the flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm
Aime Cesaire
#64. I'm a teacher! A teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!"
"I'm sorry, sir," said Harry, emphasizing the last word.
Hagrid looked stunned. "Since when have yeh called me 'sir'?"
"Since when have you called me 'Potter'?
J.K. Rowling
#65. Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
Christian Lous Lange
#66. She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
Kami Garcia
#67. If the Almighty is the Almighty, the last word for each of us belongs to Him.
Elie Wiesel
#68. But when interpreted correctly - paying attention to the original context, considering the literary genre, thinking through authorial intent - the Bible is never wrong in what it affirms and must never be marginalized as anything less than the last word on everything it teaches.
Kevin DeYoung
#69. The first rule of her
confrontational life-style was Always get the last word. The second
was Always make the first move. Making this first move was what she
thought of as Taking Care of Things, and she meant to take care of
Nettle in a hurry.
Stephen King
#70. Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.
Shane Claiborne
#71. I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#72. Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.
Terry McDonell
#73. Be mindful that the world that you want to live in and that you need to live in needs you to create it; it needs your input. The world needs to hear what you have to say. The last word has not been spoken.
Beah Richards
#74. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
Peter Medawar
#75. I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.
Gillian Flynn
#76. I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.
Philip Kitcher
#77. You are the deep innerness of all things,
the last word that can never be spoken.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#78. Oh, yes I can!
I'm not sorry!
The answer's no!
I really don't care!
And I do not always have to have the last word!
No - I don't!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
Marcel Duchamp
#80. Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.
Louis Pasteur
#81. Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
H. Rider Haggard
#82. All of it was proof that God would always have the last word when it came to life-and-death situations.
Karen Kingsbury
#83. This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
Odysseus Elytis
#84. 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
#85. God rested from all his work which he created to do/make. The last word, this last 'to do' is for us, we are the partners in the completion of creation, it's not done yet.
Dennis Prager
#86. Most nonfiction writers have a definitiveness complex. They feel that they are under some obligation - to the subject, to their honor, to the gods of writing - to make their article the last word. It's a commendable impulse, but there is no last word.
William Zinsser
#87. Revolting' was the last word I ever spoke as someone who'd never kissed a girl.
David Mitchell
#89. Lightwoods," Magnus said. "They always have to have the last word.
Cassandra Clare
#90. The best way to have the last word is to apologize.
Joyce Meyer
#91. So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way
listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos ... .Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.
Taylor Swift
#92. The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
Vance Havner
#93. That is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
Evelyn Waugh
#94. Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.
Roy Kesey
#95. Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth.
Viktor E. Frankl
#97. The abuse does not define you or have the last word on your identity. Yes, it is part of your story, but not the end of your story.
Lindsey A. Holcomb
#98. Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#99. Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.
Jeff VanderMeer
#100. There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
