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“Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.”

Ifs Children Lasts Goal My Children Have Faith Last Words

Author:Sarada Devi

“Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!”

Hands Spirit Lord Last Words Deathbed Famous Last Words Dying Last Words

Book:The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.

Source: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.

“Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.”

People Lasts Traits Last Words

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“That's good. Go on, read some more.”

Goes On Last Words

Author:Warren G. Harding

“My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.”

Needs I Can Sides My Own Trouble Doctors Overcoming Last Words Paralyzed

Author:Andrew Johnson

“Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.”

Last Words

Author:Lee Harvey Oswald

“I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.”

Bed Tired Last Words I'm Tired

Author:George Reeves

“I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.”

Real Next Half Millions Block Enjoyment Last Words Gratification Neighbour

Author:William Henry Vanderbilt

“I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.”

Ifs Tomorrow Gods Will Last Words

Author:Pope John Paul I

“Children be comforted, I am well.”

Wells Children Last Words

Author:Joseph Haydn

“Good people are always so sure they're right.”

People Forgiveness Good People Last Words Famous Last Words

Author:Barbara Graham

“I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.”

Home Not Afraid Last Words Going Home Afraid Of Death Not Afraid Of Death

Author:Patrick Swayze

“Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!”

Want Feels Fine Sunlight Last Words

Author:Rudolph Valentino

“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.”

Wells Lasts Voice Silence Angry Loud Last Words Loud Voices

Author:Gloria Naylor

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

People Writing Said Lasts Last Words

Book:The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

“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.”

Said Lasts Literature Opinion Information Poet Pursue Propaganda Novelists Complexity Last Words Illumination Sponsors

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“[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.”

Wells May Done Lasts Moving Hours Lord Spouse Last Words Time To Move On

Book:The Interior Castle

Source: The Interior Castle

“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.”

Should Firsts Lasts Order Given Color Needed Add Last Words Finishing Precaution Finishing Touches

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“I can die now. I've lived twice.”

I Can Dies Last Words

Author:Edith Piaf

“Let me go, let me go.”

Let Me Last Words Let Me Go

Author:Clara Barton

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

May Crosses Flames Stakes Burned Last Words

Author:Joan of Arc

“Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.”

Mean Lasts Next Fun Fashion Vanity Folly Seconds Ambitious Disguise Last Words Cunning Gorgeous Innuendo

Author:Barbara Kruger

“The nourishment is palatable.”

Last Words Nourishment

Author:Millard Fillmore

“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”

Thinking Death Dying Kings Sorrow Phrases Immortal Last Words Weeping Few Words Famous Last Words Dying Last Words Funny Famous Last Words

Author:Louis XIV

“Don't disarrange my circles!”

Circles Last Words

Author:Pythagoras

“I am going to seek a great perhaps.”

Last Words

Author:Francois Rabelais

“What's the hurry? Are you afraid I won't come back?”

Last Words

Author:Manfred von Richthofen

“Feeling good" is your way of telling yourself that your last thought was truth, that your last word was wisdom, that your last action was love. To measure how highly you have evolved, simply look to see what makes you "feel good.”

Way Feels Looks Feelings Action Lasts Feel Good Last Words Make You Feel Good

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.”

Lasts Judging Intention Judged Last Words Good Intentions

Author:Tom Selleck

“I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.”

Wish Sleep Awake Last Words

Author:Maria Theresa

“The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.”

Said Lasts Church Lord Five Seven Last Words Repent Our Lord Great Commission

Author:Vance Havner

“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”

Knows Men Revolutionary Coward Dictator Last Words Kill Me Famous Last Words Dying Last Words Funny Famous Last Words

Author:Che Guevara

“I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.”

Ifs Want Lasts Used Son One Day My Son Last Words Publicity

Author:Linda Evangelista

“If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!”

“There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.”

Enough Lasts Desire Our Love Submission Last Words Remorse Revolt Enough Time

Author:Joseph Conrad

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!”

Humans Stills Government Care Lasts Realizing Secret Enemy Break Security Window Property Meetings Strikes Human Life Rebellion Idols Last Words Suffrage Women's Suffrage

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.”

Thinking Said Lasts Views Too Much Philosopher Plato Last Words Unreliable

Book:Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953

Source: Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953

“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.”

Ifs Men Said Age Lasts Language Generations Ordinary Stones Claims Philosophical Metaphysics Last Words Something Better Stone Age Acumen

Author:J. L. Austin

“My exit is the result of too many entrees.”

Results Last Words Exit Entrees

Author:Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

“The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.”

Lasts Artist Process Creative Creative Process Last Words

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.”

World Remember Crowns Last Words Disturbance

Author:Charles I of England

“Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.”

Men Giving May Lasts Death Lying Speak Voice Cutting Stones Every Man Humankind Last Words Epitaph

Book:Queen Mary. A Drama

Source: Queen Mary. A Drama

“You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.”

Dying Gentleman Last Words Pardon Pardon Me

Author:Charles II of England

“Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.”

Has Beens Soul Lasts Prayer Lips Deeper Last Words

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.”

Done Father Left Last Words

Author:Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

“Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.”

Way Mind Stories Lasts Goal Fiction Reader Last Words

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.”

Men World Feels Doe Lasts Spirit Evil Existence Waste Lays Radical Tension Meaning Of Life Good And Evil Last Words

Book:A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

Source: A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Moments Lasts Past Literature Common Teacher Our Lives Reader Husband My Husband Disagree Our Past Last Words Working Life Simpatico

Author:Dorianne Laux

“There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.”

Execution Last Words Muhammad There Is No God Quran Messengers Religion Of Islam Islam Is Peace

Author:Saddam Hussein

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