You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.

Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

My husband says, 'God, Roseanne, I can't remember the last time we had sex.' Well, I can, and that is why we ain't doing it.

Actually, acting and hosting shows just happened on the way, and I will do it 'til it lasts and then concentrate on writing.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.

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.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

It's tax season. When I woke this morning and realized it was tax season, I said, My God, didn't we just pay taxes last year?

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

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.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

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.

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.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

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