Last Words Quotes - Page 12

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Lasts, Conversation, Starting

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1748, Random House

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• Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.

  Barbara Kruger

  Fashion, Fun, Mean

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• Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

  Ai Weiwei

  Quiet Voice, People, Tree

  "China's censorship can never defeat the internet" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!

  Margery Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Desire, Enough Time, Our Love

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• All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.

  Henry VIII of England

  Soul, Gone, Body

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• You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

  Charles II of England

  Gentleman, Dying, Pardon Me

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• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.

  Harry S. Truman

  Friendship, Country, History

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Every man at time of Death,
  Would fain set forth some saying that may live
  After his death and better humankind;
  For death gives life's last word a power to live,
  And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
  After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Lying, Cutting

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

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• I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

  Charles I of England

  Crowns, World, Remember

  "VVith a Relation of the maner of his going to Execution" published by Special Authority, London: Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1649.

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• The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Creative, Lasts

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• My exit is the result of too many entrees.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Exit, Results, Entrees

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• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.

  J. L. Austin

  Philosophical, Men, Age

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• So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Plato, Thinking, Views

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Idols, Secret

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• No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Thinking, Race

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• "Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine times out of ten I get up and say, "Go it," and then go off about my business; and if ever I am so foolish as to quarrel with a woman, I ought to be whipped; for you may always calculate that they will have the last word.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Brother, Nine, Lasts

  "Journal of Discourses", Volume 5, September 27, 1857.

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• I see black light (his last words)

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Black, Lasts

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• Illium grinned, unrepentant. “Want to try again? I’ll move extra slow — you are both so much older, after all.” The last words were a conspiratorial whisper. Galen glanced at Raphael. “How has he survived this long?” “No one can catch him.

  Nalini Singh

  Moving, Long, Trying

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.216, Penguin

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• I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

  Gary Cooper

  Silly, Fall, Dumb

  "Gone with the Wind/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Fighting, Blow, Buffalo

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain”, p.196, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

  David Sarnoff

  Silly, Creativity, Dumb

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• Edden called the church first,” she said by way of greeting, her thin eyebrows high as she spotted Ford’s arm linked in mine. “Hi, Ford.” The man reddened at the lilt she’d put in her last words, but I wouldn’t let him take his arm back. I liked being needed. “He’s having trouble with the background emotion,” I said. “And he’d rather be abused by yours?” Nice. (Ivy, Rachel and Ford)

  Kim Harrison

  Nice, Men, Eyebrows

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• Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

  Paul McCartney

  Beautiful, Spring, Blue

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• and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

  Paul Auster

  Farewell, Lasts, Remember

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