Lasts Quotes - Page 31

• I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Goodbye, Father, Past

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• Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

  Brian Skerry

  Ocean, Years, Pups

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• The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe.

  Joel Davis

  Lying, Cells, Skulls

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• The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

  John Eccles

  Men, Brain, Performances

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• The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the water around him filled with glimmering scales, he at last felt at home among the other fish.

  Marcus Pfister

  Book, Home, Water

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• Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Last Words

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• In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Religious, Brother

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink,
  And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.

  Omar Khayyam

  Angel, Rivers, Offering

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.164, University of Virginia Press

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• Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years.
  Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.

  Pete Conrad

  Fun, Years, Time Flies

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• These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up.

  Chuck Person

  Funny, Basketball, Stupid

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• Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals

  Byron Scott

  Basketball, Years, Finals

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• They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them

  Kevin Martin

  Basketball, Last Time

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• At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

  Ernst Toller

  Brother, Men, Realization

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: An Autobiography”

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• During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Military, Party, Night

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• I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that.

  Grant Hill

  Basketball, Believe, Opportunity

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• I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party who lost an election last year that they could have won were it not for their socially conservative agenda. We may have gone two steps forward, but I fear we may have gone one step backwards. The modernisation of the Conservative party is not yet complete.

  Margot James

  Party, Believe, Gay

  "Gay marriage debate: Tory MP warns party not to follow the Republican road" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Life is only complete when your loved ones know you. When they know your true feelings, when they know who and how you love. Life is simple when your secret is gone. Gone is the pain that lurks in the stomach at work, the pain from avoiding questions, and at last the pain from hiding such a deep secret.

  Robbie Rogers

  Pain, Love Life, Gay

  "'My secret is gone': Former Leeds midfielder and US international comes out as gay" by Paul Cockerton, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2013.

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• A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.

  John Gummer

  Hunting, People, Resorts

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• Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ignorance, Science, Rocks

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.17

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• So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

  Charlie Daniels

  Death, Past, Bird

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• Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Love, Marriage, Thinking

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• Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

  Harold C. Schonberg

  Music, Night, Carnegie

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• Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Men, Deaf

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• To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

  Horace

  Men, Degrees, Praise

  "Epistles". I. 17. 35,

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• Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

  Arthur Ashe

  Wall, School, Library

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