Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

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.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

She shrugged another plump shoulder. “I never listened to Porter when he got going.” Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

I don't want people to receive me because I scored 20 points. I want it to be because I made an impression on them that lasts forever.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

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