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“I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.”

Trying Lasts Fighting Standing

Author:Li Na

“Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.”

Lasts Left Effects Standing Department Borrowing Treasury Borrowers

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.”

People Knows Wells Long Lasts Fighting Powerful Cities Rich Built Standing Horse Trade Wave Woods Spots Long Ago Builder

Book:Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

“Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.”

Lasts Greatness Painting Standing Uplifting Tuesday

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.”

Lasts Dies Standing Jew Gas Chamber Gas Chambers

Author:Golda Meir

“Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can't claim innocence.”

Want Looks I Can Lasts Sex Standing Claims Naked Innocence Loud Scream

Author:Tori Amos

“This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.”

World Country Lasts Rocks Standing Tides Threatened Strongholds

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.”

Persons Ends Care Lasts Success Winning White Standing Flags Who Cares White Flag

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.”

Wells Ends Eye Lasts Tears Standing Favourite Indiana Crusades Tears In Your Eyes

Author:Ray Winstone

“If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mind May Together Lasts Suffering Victory Gains Standing Meetings Defeat Fear Of Death Facing Death

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.”

World Stills Sometimes Feelings Lasts Energy Sides Forever Air Sky Standing Blue Green Warm Sensations Thick Laziness Delicious Lanes Blue Sky Standing Still Hawthorne

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”

People Persons Hard Lasts America Honesty Integrity Beats Percent Standing Enterprise Free Enterprise Honesty And Integrity

Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

“Winning awards is great. Everyone wants to put a feather in their cap but for me the ultimate validation comes when you're standing on top of a peak and the weather's moving in and you're trying to manage logistics with your client, whether its food, water, shelter, and really there's only one constant out there: I know the last person I'm going to get to take care of is myself, so my gear has got to work. I take a lot of pride in knowing Eddie Bauer makes the best gear out there.”

“I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.”

Trying Play Lasts Easy Fronts Rain Standing Golf Shopping Standing Out Fifth Avenues Manhattan Taxi Freezing Fifth Avenue

Author:Dan Jenkins

“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”

“For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.”

Stills Lasts Standing Physics Superhero Titans

Author:Max Tegmark

“We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.”

Men Lasts Standing Last Man Standing

Author:John Currin

“This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.”

Kind Lasts Careers Creating Standing Plenty Exception Gray Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:Robert Reed

“You aren't advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade. Three million consumers get married every year. The advertisement which sold a refrigerator to those who got married last year will probably be just as successful with those who'll get married next year. An advertisement is just like a radar sweep, constantly hunting new prospects as they come into the market. Get a good radar and keep it sweeping.”

Years Lasts Moving Three Next Millions Successful Married Standing Army Advertising Consumers Hunting Last Year Next Year Parades Advertisements Sweeping Prospects Radar Refrigerators

Author:David Ogilvy

“I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.”

People Lasts Remember Guy Middle Beats Standing Thirds Comic Chests Rats Middle Ages Bombing Yelling Middle Aged Rambo Viet Cong

Author:Rob Cantrell

“When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking.”

Thinking Men Ideas Real Lasts Standing Died Guitar Cash Bob Dylan Lennon Last Man Standing

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“I've played in France. There, in many matches everybody is already happy if he can secure a point. Here, in Germany? Forget it! Everybody wants to win. The last-placed team in the standings would take any match with the ambition to win it. That makes it so hard, even for the best teams in the league.”

Ifs Want Hard Lasts Winning Forget Team Ambition Standing Secure France League Germany Forget It Best Team

Author:Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

“The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.”

People Want Lasts President Six Standing Viewpoints Saying The Same Thing Over And Over

Author:John Lewis

“Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”

Ifs Wells Reason Lasts Political Media Members Standing Permanent I've Learned Candidates Establishment Elites Standing Alone Unqualified

Author:Sarah Palin

“I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.”

Years Two Lasts Mother Lost Stuff Parent Terrible Picks Standing Two Years Funeral Terrible Things Mills Standing There

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.”

“I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's hard to remember life before Tobey. He makes eveything seem possible. Like whatever you feel is true, really true in your heart, you can make happen. And you just know, when it happens, its for real. And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.”

Knows Way Want Feels Heart Real Hard Seems Happens Together Lasts Remember Wish Millions Possibility Summer Standing Being Real Really True Last Summer Separate Ways

Author:Susane Colasanti

“As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.”

Source: Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

“For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.”

People Years Persons Whole Wanted Lasts Night Next Rooms Numbers Streets Mets Ten Standing Filled Phones Clubs Cards Pockets Telephones Mobile Pavement Mobile Phones Night Club Sims

Author:David Nicholls

“As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me, eyes half-closed but not in the least sleepy. He'd put on his blue jeans, but nothing else... very sexy. I couldn't help but take in the view.”

Helping Eye Lasts Views Half Company Standing Blue Sexy Jeans Handful Thighs Sleepy Standing There Blue Jeans

Author:Rachel Caine

“Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking. I'm standing over their bodies, having a last look, leaving the room where they lie. But when I open the door to step out into the world, there's only a tremendous void. A pale grey nothingness that is all my future holds.”

World Trying Looks Body Hands Might Eye Today Lasts Lying Voice Loses Rooms Steps Imagine Doors Standing Leaving Void Pale Nothingness Grey My Future Peeta Gale

Book:The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy

“Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

Moments Bigs Lasts Faces Dies Next Felt Boys Sea Rocks Adventure Standing Passing Passings Ran Peter

Author:James M. Barrie

“So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Emmett howled with laughter.”

Stills Two Lasts Night Laughter Standing Debt Last Night Discussing National Debt Rubble Snickers

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.”

“Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11”

Two Lasts Three Blood Picks Gun Standing Rounds Track Damage Temples Metals Explosions Barrels Collateral Roulette Collateral Damage Where She Went Choose Me

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“I always, always got to be the last man standing.”

Men Lasts Standing Last Man Standing

Author:Scott Snyder

“It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.”

People Writing Trying Kids Lasts Games Lessons Jokes Standing Hardest Let It Go Writing Advice Overthinking Funny Motivational

Author:Tina Fey

“We don’t have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him.” – Sundown “Are you out of your effing mind? Hello? Where have you been for the last two days? I want whatever screwed-up glasses you’re looking through. ’Cause from where I’ve been standing, we’ve been getting our asses seriously kicked around the block. Up a few stairs and down again.” – Sasha”

Want Mind I Can Two Lasts Fighting Causes Ability Standing Defeat Glasses Ass Block Hello Stairs Two Days Screwed Up Coyotes

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson”

Men Lasts Fool Battle Standing Noble Fearless Last Man Standing

Author:Tiffanie DeBartolo

“So this is the young man who has intentions toward my little girl." Bobby shifted in his seat and crossed his legs. "It is not fun on this side of the table, is it, Robert?" Uncle Eddie huffed, and Kat had to remember that once upon a time her mother had been a dark-haired girl in that kitchen, and her dad had been the stray she'd brought home. She watched the two men looking at Hale as if they'd never before laid eyes on him. "He's better-looking than the last vagabond I had to take in," Eddie said, standing and carrying empty bowls to the sink. "I'll give him that.”

“Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.”

World Together Lasts Faces Chance Crazy This World Standing Face To Face Back Together

Author:Vanessa L. Williams

“Nobody's taller than the last man standing”

Men Lasts Sports Standing Motivational Sports Last Man Standing

Author:LaMichael James

“The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at the group and you get your salute and you get the standing ovation and that means a lot to us.”

Years Looks Mean Lasts Fun Greater Groups Standing Warm Atmosphere Hockey Last Year Salute Ovation Winnipeg

Author:Jennifer Botterill

“So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."”