“Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.” ThinkingMenNeedsShouldSometimesLastsSongLove IsHe ManFineClothesSingingAnd LoveMarrying Book:Changes: A Love Story Source: Changes: A Love Story
“I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.” ThinkingYearsLittlesHandsLastsFourRaisesRescueGood WorkDukesSiege Book:Joan of Arc: Self Portrait Source: Joan of Arc: Self Portrait
“When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongMomentsSeemsLastsTimeHoursInternetLong TimeHundredYears AgoConstantPhonesContactUnitsMobileTime PassesMobile PhonesUpdatesTrivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost, I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.” ThinkingKnowsWantLastsLostMissingPoliticianMembersPressesStatementsGentlemanKicksI Want YouConferencesDelightedPress Conferences Author:Richard M. Nixon
“I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.” ThinkingPersonsSaidSometimesLastsCoursesNextGamesReaderSightEnjoyedRepeatsTransformedObscureMisleadJoyceParlorFinnegans WakeParlor Games Author:Sylvia Beach
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldDoeLastsValuesCommunityEnvironmentShareMinesBalanceSurvivalResourcesCompetitionCooperationEcosystemsCanaries Author:Rebecca Adamson
“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.” ThinkingYearsLastsSawsRight NowYears AgoFar AwayLast Time Author:Nadya Suleman
“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.” IfsThinkingWantHumansLooksKindShowsLastsGuyEmotionOpinionPsychologyWillingWeaknessOkaySexyGentleOur FamilyAttractiveSensitiveVulnerabilityIntrospectiveSerialsLook At Yourself Author:Megan Fox
“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.” ThinkingFirstsLastsPovertyEnvironmentVacuums 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.” ThinkingGivingChildrenSchoolLastsLawPracticeCenturyInvolvedReactionsRebellionContemptAfghanistanMultipleAutonomyScornBridesEmancipationAbolishAfghan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“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.” ThinkingWayMindMeanI CanPlayCharacterUseRealityAgeLastsFilmMemoriesWrittenEventsStrangeThousandTenTheaterLegsBrokePalimpsest 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.” ThinkingYearsEndsMightWould BeLastsLife IsCasesFiveTerribleHundredGladComing To An End Author:Gore Vidal
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsDifferentLastsSocialNumbersCuttingAirCrimeDiseaseConceptsTeethEpidemics Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“[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.” ThinkingMenLastsPowerfulFieldsPositionMalesHillsWorkplaceCapitolPlantationsCapitol Hill Author:Andrea Mitchell
“I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.” IfsThinkingBelieveEnoughLastsGivenStuffCan DoPerfectPerformancesLooking ForwardInsufficient Author:Russell Crowe
“I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.” ThinkingLastsRememberWishSpaceSawsDadClimbingLast TimeTime And SpaceEverest Author:Bear Grylls
“But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobodys got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.” ThinkingWorldWholeLastsGuyMinutesWhole WorldThat GuyOne Minute Author:Arlo Guthrie
“Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.” ThinkingShouldStillsLastsAdventureComfortSafeTravelPercentZoneComfort ZoneManageable Author:Bear Grylls