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“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Doe Lasts Values Community Environment Share Mines Balance Survival Resources Competition Cooperation Ecosystems Canaries

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.”

Life Lasts Life Is Chance Series Last Chance

Author:Cynthia Voigt

“I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.”

People Knows Lasts Obsession Obsessed

Book:Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

“Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.”

Firsts Lasts Jesus Christ Church Jesus Christ

Author:Uta Ranke-Heinemann

“There are too many unpredictable things that can happen within two months. To me, the ideal trade lasts ten days, but I approach every trade as if I'm only going to hold it two or three days.”

Ifs Two Happens Lasts Three Months Ten Approach Ideals Trade Unpredictable Two Months Unpredictable Things

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.”

Lasts Success Breaths Caps Jury

Author:Judy Sheindlin

“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.”

Source: Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War

“Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .”

Lasts Chaos Void Crawling

Book:H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection

Source: H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection

“Like an hourglass with a certain number of grains of sand within it, God has appointed your life to last only a certain number of days, and you have absolutely no idea how many there are.... In God's presence, consider: I have no idea when my life will end. All I know is that death will come for me eventually. Am I doing anything to prepare for the real possibility that God may call me, sooner rather than later? If he called me into eternity today, would I be ready?”

Ifs Knows May Ideas Real Ends Today Lasts Certain Numbers Possibility Ready Eternity No Idea Sand Call Me Grain Grains Of Sand God's Presence Hourglass

Author:Patrick Madrid

“Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.”

Wells Said Lasts Turns Economy Mines Quarters Economist Disappoint

Author:Robert Orben

“Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.”

Firsts Hands Lasts Rivers Passing Passings

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.”

Years Lasts Space Albums Valleys Storage Vinyl Storage Space

Author:Dave Grohl

“We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory.”

Bigs Lasts President Victory Election Democratic Immigration Reform President Obama Senate Comprehensive Epiphany Immigration Reform

Author:Barack Obama

“I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.”

Want Giving Reason Wanted Lasts Careers Audience Minutes Unique No Reason Copies

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.”

Thinking Years Lasts Saws Right Now Years Ago Far Away Last Time

Author:Nadya Suleman

“Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.”

People Ifs Lasts Behinds Wheels Drivers Elderly Lifelines

Author:Tucker Carlson

“[Harvey] Weinstein appointed himself as the arbiter of your family safety. When was the last time his life was in danger, probably choking on a veal chop. He doesn't need a gun because he has security. He travels in rarified air. His feet never touch the street - feet, mind you, that he can't see because he's a corpulent cretin.”

Needs Mind Lasts Air Feet Streets Security Danger Gun Safety Our Family Last Time Choke Harvey Arbiter

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.”

Ifs Needs Wells Looks Today Able Lasts Social Difficult Security Program Retirement Social Security Difficult Times Great Depression

Author:Chris Matthews

“An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.”

Long Lasts Process Sound Voice Rooms Effects Finals Casts Drawing Rough Animated Screening Sound Effects

Author:Tom Hanks

“There are a lot of guys who think that if they show weakness or vulnerability they're not sexy anymore or attractive. In my opinion, you can't be too open or too gentle or kind or sensitive. If you really want to work on a relationship and have one that lasts, you have to be willing to go deep into human psychology and emotion. If you don't want to go there, you can be a serial dater, and I guess that's okay, but if you want a relationship with a woman, you have to be introspective and look at yourself and your family and where you've been and where you're going.”

“I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.”

Writing Lasts Process Editing Writing Process Screenplays

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.”

Thinking Firsts Lasts Poverty Environment Vacuums

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.”

Thinking Giving Children School Lasts Law Practice Century Involved Reactions Rebellion Contempt Afghanistan Multiple Autonomy Scorn Brides Emancipation Abolish Afghan

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.”

People Knows Firsts Lasts Break Fashion Design Discipline Historical Analysis Academic

Author:Tim Gunn

“The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."”

Ifs War Character Stories Lasts Courses Drama Elements Survival Built Life And Death Stakes War Stories

Author:Steven Pressfield

“One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!”

Knows Want Lasts Fighting Periods Treats Great Things Servant Bubbles Darcy

Book:Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean I Can Play Character Use Reality Age Lasts Film Memories Written Events Strange Thousand Ten Theater Legs Broke Palimpsest

Author:Gore Vidal

“We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.”

People World Has Beens War Lasts Justice Practice Century Army Institutions Court Congress Oil Policemen

Author:Gore Vidal

“I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.”

Thinking Years Ends Might Would Be Lasts Life Is Cases Five Terrible Hundred Glad Coming To An End

Author:Gore Vidal

“At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.”

People Lasts Names Protect Seven Armstrong

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.”

Years Lasts Life Is Chance Perspective News Survival Flow Cancer Last Year Coins Bad Day October Bad News Toss Ebb And Flow Testicular Cancer

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.”

Want Giving Sometimes Lasts Fun Hours Pleasure Deals Reader Impression Fascinating Devotional

Author:Frederick Buechner

“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

“People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.”

People Thinking World Years Different Lasts Social Numbers Cutting Air Crime Disease Concepts Teeth Epidemics

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.”

Done Stories Lasts Turns Challenges Laughing Huge Reader Pages Surprise Corners Mediums Shock Pace Payoff Setups Make Someone Laugh

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.”

Should Writing Important Stories Lasts Fun Important Things Entertaining Amusing

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.”

People Knows Want Lasts Fame Strive Ironic Personal Life

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.”

Way Years Believe Different Lasts I Believe Goal Millions Feminism Twenties Extraordinary Spread Accomplish Different Ways Phenomenon Spectacular

Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton

“Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.”

Men Firsts Different Lasts Situation Effects Approach Bigger Contrast Statues

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.”

Lasts Grief Childhood Terrible Abandoned Possessing

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Lasts Youth Why Not Persist Hereafter

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style.”

Lasts Style Clothes Built Preppy

Book:The official preppy handbook

Source: The official preppy handbook

“I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.”

Feels Writing Wells Lasts Three Felt Difficult Numbers Successful Five Minutes Lists Five Minutes Difficult Days

Author:Jacqueline Briskin

“[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.”

Thinking Men Lasts Powerful Fields Position Males Hills Workplace Capitol Plantations Capitol Hill

Author:Andrea Mitchell

“The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.”

Hands Lasts Rich Fields Wind Gold Green Autumn Reaper Lush

Book:The Mad Carews

Source: The Mad Carews

“Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.”

Ideas Feelings Dream Lasts Forever

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.”

Long Ends Pain Lasts Moving Used Grows Attention Poverty Sun Too Much Shrinks Unbearable Daylight Exposing Dormant Squalor

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.”

Character Shows Funny Lasts Moving Given Bits Huge Seasons Casts Ugly Personal Life

Author:Matt Groening

“I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper, as if I were supposed to take in everything with the few years that will be offered to me ... And now love will still blossom for me before I depart, and if I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.”

Ifs Knows Years Long Stills Hands Lasts Beautiful Three Grows Flower Hair Perception Life And Death Festivals So Sad Sensuous

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

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