Lasts Quotes

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• …You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Forever, Want, Toppings

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.59, Penguin

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  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Adams

  Suicide, Freedom, Suicidal

  Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.4, Random House

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• A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Drinking, Divorce

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• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Suspense Novels

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Forever, Achieve, Vigilant

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• There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

  David Eagleman

  Names, Three, Body

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from Feb 15, 2012

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

  Alicia Machado

  Beauty, Mind, Imperfect

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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• The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

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• Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

  Groucho Marx

  Halloween, Famous Last Words, Spooky

  "What Jesus' Words in Death Reveal About His Life" by Greg Laurie, www.christianpost.com. April 14, 2017.

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• I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Dark, Journey

  Last words, in John Watkins 'Anecdotes of Men of Learning' (1808

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Dream, Kissing

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.269, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Let's make hay while it lasts.

  James Lovelock

  Hay

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• No blessing lasts forever.

  Plautus

  Blessing, Forever

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Terence, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1942). “The complete Roman drama: all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca, in a variety of translations”

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• We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Rights, Silence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

  Samuel Richardson

  Honeymoon, Fortnight

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V1: the history of a young lady”, p.168, 谷月社

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• Nothing made by brute force lasts.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Made, Force, Brutes

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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