Last Quotes

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.