Schroeder: (to Lucy) I wouldn’t marry you unless you were the last girl on earth! Lucy van Pelt: Did you say ‘if’ or ‘unless’? Schroeder:I admit I said ‘unless’… Lucy van Pelt: HOPE!!! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. – George C. Williams
Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. – William Shakespeare Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 2, Cardinal Wolsey.
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person’s hand. – Gilbert White
The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance that out. – Hugh Jackman
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. – Gregory Maguire
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us. – Howard Carter
My first date was with Endeavour, and my last date is going to be with Endeavour, as far as space shuttles are concerned. – Gregory H. Johnson
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. – Harvey Cox
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. – George Catlin
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. – Georges Jacques Danton
But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead. – Helen Hunt Jackson
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein’s rule. – Graydon Carter
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last. – Howard Jacobson
This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican. – Henry Bonilla
