“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.” ShouldFirstsLastsOrderGivenColorNeededAddLast WordsFinishingPrecautionFinishing Touches Book:Pensées of Joubert Source: Pensées of Joubert
“I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.” GivingTryingEndsLastsChanceActingMonthsNeededDecidedQuittingLoserTry AgainLast Chance Author:Judi Shekoni
“We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.” CareLastsStuffBabyNeededTake CareHipsAlsSurgeryReplacementsTime OffPersonal Stuff Author:Sammy Hagar
“The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.” TwoDoneProblemLastsNeededOvercomingDecades Author:Yoshihiko Noda
“Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.” MenMindHumansWellsMeanChildrenIdeasLastsOrderFiveFocusBirthNeededPercentUnderstoodLaborPropertySuspectsOwnershipTimingHuman HistoryIntercourseHerbsReproductionMobilityWomen's Health Author:Gloria Steinem
“For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.” NeedsLastsReadingNeededMovedScriptsI RealizedEpisodesLast TimeTerminalAbbeyHandkerchiefs Author:Hugh Bonneville
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.” WorldWayChildrenLastsNaturalViewsCitiesAcceptingClearAcceptanceReturnNeededLoversIllnessAbsenceI RealizedGravesHolesMy WayFortyIntensityIrelandExileGrimSwampsRigorFjords Author:Kevin Barry
“"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.” ThinkingYearsBookWholeCharacterLastsThreeChangedMonthsNeededTenSignificantLast YearDiagnosisThree MonthsWholesaleSmall Changes Author:Alan Lightman
“Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.” MenLastsNeededCivilizationOil Author:Fred Reed
“Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.” WayNeedsBelieveLastsFilmPassionActorsI BelieveBreakNeededTreatsGood WorkMake Or Break Author:Abhishek Bachchan
“We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?” LongStillsLastsNeededBuiltConvictionDedicationFree SocietyCathedrals Author:Thomas Sowell
“I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. I dropped out of Yale after two years to pursue one of the most uncertain careers - modeling. That seemed like a crazy decision, especially coming from where I came from and given what Yale is. Most people I knew told me so. But I was following what my heart was telling me I needed to do. I took the risk. It could easily have not worked out, but it did. Phew!” PeopleWayYearsHeartMayPersonsLongSaidTwoWantedLastsLife IsGivenDecisionCareersRiskCrazyNeededMy HeartFollowingPursueTwo YearsUncertainToo ShortModelingRisk ItYaleLife Is Way Too ShortWoulda Coulda Shoulda Author:Joy Bryant
“Let me just suggest to everybody, and I hear - last February [2015], I said we needed to have people on the ground in a coalition with Europe and our allies. This is not going to get done just by working with the Sunnis. And it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people.” PeopleIfsSaidDoneLastsNeededEuropeLet MeAlliesCoalitionsFebruary Author:John Kasich
“This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.” ThinkingYearsKindFeelingsBodyLastsBreakNeededWork OutFocusedFeel GoodLast Year Author:Gwen Stefani
“I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became a four-piece for the last record because the songs had more extensive arrangements and we needed a keyboard player to pull off a lot of those songs. We missed the energy, and more push-and-pull of the three-piece.” ThinkingWantedLastsFormSongThreeEnergyPrinciplesRecordsPiecesFourPlayerReturnNeededSignificantArrangementsKeyboardsGuiding PrinciplesKeyboard Players Author:Chris Cain
“It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.” WantYearsMadeTwoPlayTogetherLastsSongSoundDifferencesHalfMillionsKnowingEnvironmentMaterialsHugeNeededSummerMusicianAlbumsStudiosTwo YearsControlledSatisfyingFieryFurnacesNew SongsLast Summer Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.” WorldSoulTodayLastsHumanityBeliefRightsMovementNeededAngryViolentCivil RightsOppressionWorld TodayCivil Rights MovementVindictive Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We knew they were going to be coming at us. I think they got their first two goals by getting underneath us in the crease. The first two goals really picked them up. Dom (Lamolinara) just stood on his head when we needed him with that doorstop save and the last pass with four seconds left. Defensively we're just jelling and we've just got to keep moving.” ThinkingFirstsTwoLastsMovingLeftGoalFourNeededSecondsKeep MovingLacrosseDoms Author:John Desko
“I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.” GivingYearsFirstsLastsRememberGuyNextHouseSawsCryEmotionalNeededDadFirst TimeGive MeStructureMy DadEightGrandmotherLast TimeSoberMy Grandmother Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“The last year I was playing, I asked the stick boy to get me a Diet Coke and he said, "Really?" But I always had one on the bench because that's what I did in 1979 when there wasn't Gatorade. If you needed energy you went and got a Snickers or a Kit Kat. Nobody knew any better.” IfsYearsSaidLastsEnergyBoysNeededSticksDietsLast YearBenchesCokeDiet CokeSnickersGatorade Author:Wayne Gretzky
“With our last album ("No Time To Bleed"), we recorded most of it in New Jersey. And with being on the road 9 months a year, recording an album on the other side of the country- it just wasn't a good experience for us. All I wanted to do was go home and see my daughter, so for us to only be a couple hours away was huge- I could go home if I needed to.” IfsYearsCountryHomeWantedLastsSidesHoursHugeMonthsCoupleNeededDaughterAlbumsMy DaughterJerseyNew JerseyGood Experiences Author:Mitch Lucker
“I think [there's] the opportunity for - I almost said President Clinton, and soon I will - but for Hillary Clinton to address that, and for the public sphere to address that in a way that they haven't. We started a conversation in the last few years on race that we desperately needed to have.” ThinkingWayYearsSaidLastsOpportunityPresidentRaceHavensNeededConversationClintonAddressesSpheresPresident Clinton Author:Joss Whedon
“Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoFactsWould BeLastsYoungPartySupportTrumpNeededRepublicanDifficultyDecadesCampaignsEducatedRepublican PartyMikeLatinoLike Mike Author:Mark Colvin
“Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.” YearsLastsMillionsFiveSecurityNeededDeterminationMajorityCongressBillionsDespiteAdministrationFive YearsGrantsCoastPortLast Five YearsCoast Guard Author:Solomon Ortiz
“What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.” MenLastsPoliticalHalfCrimeNeededWitCleverCommitResortsClever Man Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
“The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: 'If it moves, I'm out of here.' The worst thing is, they know when you're afraid and act up accordingly. I've had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.” IfsKnowsSaidRunningLastsMovingWorstNeededHorseLast TimeWorst Things Author:Christopher Walken
“She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.” NeedsGivingShouldAbleLastsNeeded Author:Nicholas Evans
“Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.” KnowsYearsMadeLastsFiguresColdNeededHeatLast YearBasementsRefrigeratorsCold Heart Author:Alton Brown
“Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.” LastsKindnessColdNeededWarmthThreatenedNumbIcy Author:Janet Fitch
“(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.” KnowsNeedsLastsNextSoundDogSweetNeededSettlingFriendlySolitaryOld DogNeeded Someone Book:The Underneath Source: The Underneath
“Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.” SaidHomeLastsNightFatherEasyKnownClearPiecesNeededAcceptedComing HomeLast Night Author:Alice Sebold