Top 100 What Lasts Lasts Quotes
#1. As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.
Haruki Murakami
#2. May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.
Ahmed Mostafa
#3. Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
Serge Lang
#4. Hey, Nana ...
people's feelings change easily ...
what you see is a house of cards ...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever.
Ai Yazawa
#5. It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.
Alex Prager
#6. Love is ... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.
Mike Oldfield
#7. Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
Bob Goff
#8. Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.
Jean Rhys
#9. In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.
Brian Lindstrom
#10. Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,
to be intelligently simple.
Josh Billings
#11. Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.
John Banville
#12. What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.
Simon De Pury
#13. Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have.
Michael Dobbs
#14. The time in your life can go by in the blink of an eye, so look for what lasts a lifetime.
J.R. Rim
#15. What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.
Zachary Cole Smith
#16. No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.
Rosemary Altea
#17. I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.
Alex Prager
#18. I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax ... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.
Plato
#19. That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#20. Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#21. So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.
Ethel Kennedy
#22. What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.
Curtis Jackson
#23. Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't pretty at first. It comes over time to be beautiful or interesting or exciting.
Carine Roitfeld
#24. [B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever.
Steve Hagen
#25. They can kill us, even down to the last of us, but they can't kill - can never kill - what lasts in us.
Rick Yancey
#26. That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#27. What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?
Francis Arthur Freeth
#28. If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?
Max Lucado
#29. It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.
Sofia Coppola
#30. What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
Adam Rapp
#31. It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?"
Patch Adams
#32. If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
Travis Bradberry
#33. What's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.
Stephanie Coontz
#34. Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
David Gilmour
#35. If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
#36. Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.
Barbara Stanwyck
#37. Yudhishthira answers Yaksha's question - what is man? by saying, 'The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.
Gurcharan Das
#39. There's no what's next, there's only now, and this moment lasts forever.
Amie Kaufman
#40. The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures ... This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.
Andrei Makine
#41. The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
James Gray
#42. What comes easy wont last long, and what lasts long won't come easy.
Anonymous
#43. When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be home
Paul Gruchow
#44. What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become timeless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality.
Katherine Applegate
#46. What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
Guy Finley
#47. What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.
Peter Brodie
#48. I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.
William Orbit
#49. Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.
Mary Karr
#50. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
Robert Browning
#51. Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
William Butler Yeats
#52. Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.
Carol Leifer
#53. Crying's okay while it lasts, but you can only do it for so long. And it's weird to do it when you apparently can't make tears anymore (did this mean I wouldn't pee or sweat, either?). Anyway, eventually you're done, and you have to figure out what to do next.
MaryJanice Davidson
#54. I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness."
"Some things last."
I faced him. "Really? And just what would that be?"
"The things that matter.
Mary E. Pearson
#55. What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms ... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.
Brassai
#56. Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all.
Nicola Yoon
#58. My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate
Julie Anne Peters
#59. You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy?
Natalie Babbitt
#61. As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.
Seneca.
#62. And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.
Rahm Emanuel
#63. What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.
Tracy Morgan
#64. Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
Aaron Levie
#65. Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#66. To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.
Mae West
#67. In general I do not draw well with literary men
not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
Lord Byron
#68. My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.
Jami Attenberg
#69. With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.
Niall FitzGerald
#70. Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.
Stephen Beal
#71. How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?
Pope Francis
#72. I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.
Steve Case
#74. My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.
Shannon Hale
#75. I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.
James Gleick
#76. My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.
Keith Olbermann
#77. What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
Agnes Denes
#78. Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
Charles Kingsley
#79. You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.
Kenneth Patchen
#80. Don't you dare walk away from this, Jack, don't you dare, Molly says fiercely. Most people don't ever feel what yer feeling. Be with her. An if it lasts one hour, one night, a week a month, it don't matter. Be with her, burn with her, shine with her ... fer whatever time's given to you.
Moira Young
#81. It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
Laozi
#82. My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
Ansel Adams
#83. Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'
Method Man
#84. The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.
David Adjaye
#85. No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.
Miley Cyrus
#86. Nothing lasts forever." "Some things do." "What kind of things?" "The things we like to remember. The love we've felt for people.
Justin Cronin
#87. A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.
Kim Harrison
#88. What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.
M. Russell Ballard
#89. My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not for me to judge whether it's a good film or a bad film, but what I could say is that nobody had a cultural or linguistic issue with what was produced.
Abbas Kiarostami
#91. While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.
Martial
#92. The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.
Richard Prince
#94. I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.
Kasey Kahne
#95. Know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.
Kristin Hannah
#96. There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.
Curt Mega
#97. What I have a problem with, is this big worldwide synchronization, this big worldwide oneness, where everybody is just like the same person. I couldn't tell you when, was the last time I met an individual.
Chronixx
#98. Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.
Donny Osmond
#99. 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
Zooey Deschanel
#100. When you are not sure what to do now just keep doing what God told you to do last!
Christine Caine
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