Last Words Quotes - Page 17

• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

  Mason Cooley

  Believe, Literature, Lasts

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• There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our best possible approximation of reality. But that often gets forgotten in the way the public perceives and describes our work.

  Hans von Storch

  Reality, Forgotten, Scientist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.

  Rakim

  Writing, Ciphers, Lasts

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

  Albert Camus

  Anger, Done, Lasts

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• Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.” She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.

  Rick Riordan

  Love You, Annabeth, Ears

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• When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Lying, Evil, Needs

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• So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

  Walter Raleigh

  Heart, Matter, Way

  At his execution, on being asked which way he preferred to lay his head, in William Stebbing 'Sir Walter Raleigh' (1891) ch. 30

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• And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

  Slick Rick

  Rap, Lines, Lasts

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• Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

  John Green

  Strong, Doubt, Coward

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Mind, Important, Our Actions

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• I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Directors, Lasts, Clear

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• Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.

  Alice Miller

  Philosophy, Self, Expression

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• Last word in lonesome is me.

  Eddy Arnold

  Lasts, Lonesome

  Song: The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me

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• Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

  Alan Colmes

  Littles, Lasts, Would Be

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• So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

  Lucretius

  Heart, Adversity, Reality

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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• May your first word be adventure and last word love.

  Bruce Feiler

  Adventure, Lasts, Firsts

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• A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

  Gloria Naylor

  Loud Voices, Silence, Lasts

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• I can die now. I've lived twice.

  Edith Piaf

  Dies, I Can

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• [Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.

  Teresa of Avila

  Moving, Time To Move On, Done

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2003). “The Interior Castle”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• [Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

  Joan of Arc

  Flames, May, Crosses

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• The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

  Susan Sontag

  Illumination, Novelists, Literature

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.154, Macmillan

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• Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

  Joyce Meyer

  Needs, Lasts

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• The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

  Joseph Joubert

  Order, Color, Finishing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Team, Kissing, Battle

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK

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• the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, People, Lasts

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.52, Grove Press

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