Top 530 Last Quotes

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

The particular way I’m going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won’t be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.

Of course nepotism exists, but if star kids are not good at what they do, they won’t last.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn’t know well.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

Every day, you’re only as good as your last show.

During last night’s debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first significant impact that Homo sapiens had on the planet’s ecosystem. It was not the last.

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife – Agnes – and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

I’ve seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

The soldiers’ last meal is generally served out about five o’clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don’t switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East.

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won’t help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you’re always growing.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

I used to spray tan a lot when I was a teenager. The last time I got spray-tanned was for the Golden Globes. And I was like, ‘I love spray-tanning so much.’ I still really like it. But it definitely makes me look like I have leprosy, after a point.

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

My first date was with Endeavour, and my last date is going to be with Endeavour, as far as space shuttles are concerned.

I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called ‘The Last Elephant,’ with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he says they want to see you for this project called Candyman. I thought he was joking so I hung up.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it’s all over the map, when there’s a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

The right to bear arms is because it’s the last form of defense against tyranny.

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. – at the Battle of Copenhagen.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

You don’t want to be the boy leaving Chelsea, you want to train like every session is your last session because you know you always have to prove something to people.

Look, don’t congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

It’s marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

In Jenny Offill’s remarkable first novel, ‘Last Things,’ 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

I’m a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

I will fight till my last breath for the sake of 3.5 crore people of Telangana. I am ready to make any sacrifice for them.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.