Quotes with last-resort

Quotes 401 till 420 of 560.

  • T. S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Rita Mae Brown The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bun E. Carlos The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone 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.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Douglas Adams The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Bill Clinton The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.
    Campaign speech given in California
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Bob Monkhouse The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
    Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Barbara Lee The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Tacitus The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bill Bixby The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Barbra Streisand The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • John Foster Dulles The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Jackie Joyner Kersee The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Samuel Johnson The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbra Streisand The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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