Lasts Quotes - Page 40

• Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

  Trevor Brooking

  Football, Different, Today

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• It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Moving, Recovery, Swimming

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• I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.

  Katerine Savard

  Morning, Athlete, Swimming

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• I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

  Mark Twain

  Moving, Games, Chess

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, Penguin

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• I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

  George A. Sheehan

  Swimming, Forever, Damn

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That's how highly they rated him.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Games, Rooms

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• I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Nature, Heart, Mind

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Spring, Break Through

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• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.

  Clinton Presba Anderson

  Oil, Knowing, Anchors

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• The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.

  William O. Douglas

  Alaska, Mountain, Next

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• Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

  Aldo Leopold

  Humility, Land, Intellectual

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.200, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'

  David Perkins

  Smart, Teaching, School

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

  Kenzo Tange

  Long, Design, Arbitrary

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• And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Wine, Chickens, Champagne

  'Six Town Eclogues' (1747) 'The Lover' l. 25

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Sheep, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
  There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
  Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
  And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
  Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
  I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

  Ernest Dowson

  Fashion, Passion, Wine

  Ernest Dowson, (2013). “The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Wine, Vines, Firsts

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

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• There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

  Bennett Cerf

  Teaching, College, Today

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• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  A. J. Liebling

  Wine, Insulting, Bottles

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.6, North Point Press

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• We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

  Alec Waugh

  Wine, Hobbies, Needs

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• This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Civilization, Clothes, Nuisance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2013). “Tarzan Books 1 through 5”, eStar Books

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• The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.

  Colin Fletcher

  Weather, Long, Dresses

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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

  Lucy Irvine

  Strong, Eye, Night

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• The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.

  Dave Pietramala

  Lacrosse, Way, Doe

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