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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. — Mason Cooley

We’re blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis

You can’t argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word. — Jennifer Donnelly

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off. — Laurell K. Hamilton

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#1. Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of Allah. — Author: Ibn Saud

#2. I wanted to talk,» he said.
«I don’t want to talk,» said Jared. «And I won’t want to talk. Ever.»
«Can we just — «
«Talk?» Jared asked. «All right, if you insist. Let’s talk about the many definitions of the word no. — Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

#3. If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent. — Author: Robert Browning

#4. God cares about those in need, and so should His people. — Author: Jim George

#5. Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says. — Author: Art Alexakis

#6. To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter’s face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him. — Author: David Whyte

#7. Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply «sound» the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts. — Author: Willigis Jager

#8. Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word … that tries to describe something that can’t be described but is the only thing worth having. — Author: Elizabeth Goudge

#9. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I’m talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it’s because I’m swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language. — Author: David Levithan

#10. Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?»
«Peng you,» I say.
«Peng you,» she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. «Shee shee for being my penguin,» she says. — Author: Andrea Cheng

#11. Satan can move in the supernatural realm, too, because he is a spirit being, as is God. You’ve got to be able to know whether a vision, dream, impression, or suggestion is from God or Satan. Those suggestions that do not line up with the Word are of the devil. — Author: Kenneth E. Hagin

#12. Kidding?» He asked; rolling the foreign word over in his mouth like he tasted something sour.
«Yeah, you know. Joking. Ha ha ha.» I said. — Author: Micalea Smeltzer

#13. When we view ourselves through the lens of God’s Word, we better understand God’s love for us and the worth we have in His eyes. — Author: Elizabeth George

#14. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers. — Author: Muriel Lester

#15. The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere. — Author: Mary McCarthy

#16. For centuries the word ‘nature’ has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see. — Author: Eva Figes

#17. Socialism’s not a word that I use. I say ‘social democracy’ because I don’t think the government needs to own all the means of production. — Author: David Cunliffe

#18. Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word «we,» liberals use the word «unsubstantiated» to mean «tested repeatedly and proved true.» — Author: Ann Coulter

#19. But before she could speak another word, he crushed his mouth against hers. — Author: Morgan Rhodes

#20. My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone … from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. — Author: Audrey Hepburn

#21. The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love.
I am decutie. Worn thin. You know that word? — Author: Helene Cixous

#22. Happy is a poor word for someone who’s trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world. — Author: Kate Bornstein

#23. I’m a troglodyte. I think that’s the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers. — Author: Joanne Kelly

#24. Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens. — Author: Raneem Kayyali

#25. I am much less interested in what is called God’s word than in God’s deeds. All bibles are man-made. — Author: Thomas A. Edison

#26. That wild word, «Moor Eeffoc,» is the motto of all effective realism; it is the masterpiece of the good realistic principle — the principle that the most fantastic thing of all is often the precise fact. — Author: G.K. Chesterton

#27. I think the interesting thing about the word ‘posh’ is that it is so relative; it’s quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word. — Author: Laura Wade

#28. Girl, all you have to do is say the word, and Mr. Lusty McLust a Lot here will be happy to whisper some dirty nothings in your ear. — Author: Wendy Higgins

#29. What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? — Author: Kahlil Gibran

#30. Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn’t see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn’t do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth. — Author: Allison Anders

#31. I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn’t look right anymore. I will try that. — Author: Kate McGahan

#32. I think the first word of caution is; It’s not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We’ve trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip. — Author: Liz Miller

#33. God tries to tell us in His Word how much He loves us and He accepts us, and that even though He already knows every mistake we will ever make, He still chose us for Himself. — Author: Joyce Meyer

#34. 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. — Author: Joseph Joubert

#35. Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It’s the kind of word you use to hide the truth. — Author: Krista Ritchie

#36. I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn’t a word that wasn’t essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated. — Author: W. H. Auden

#37. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership. — Author: Aubrey Malphurs

#38. RON: Only- friends. Funny word- friends. Not that funny. Just a word, really. Friends. Friend. Funny friend. You, my funny friend, my Hermoine. Not that- not my Hermoine, you understand- not MY Hermoine- not MINE- you know, but… — Author: J.K. Rowling

#39. I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory. — Author: John Calvin

#40. May I live this day … Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes — Author: John O’Donohue

#41. Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. — Author: Carl Clinton Van Doren

#42. You’ve got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word. — Author: George MacDonald

#43. What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what? — Author: Patrick O’Brian

#44. Crisis’ seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world. — Author: Johnnetta B. Cole

#45. Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement. — Author: Charles Dickens

#46. Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now. — Author: Jordin Sparks

#47. I got the idea [for Anthem’s theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word ‘I.’ — Author: Ayn Rand

#48. There is hope in maybe.
Maybe.
Such a tiny word.
Such a powerful word. — Author: Heather Vogel Frederick

#49. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself. — Author: Kevin Rudd

#50. God’s Word is our only reliable source of truth about Satan and demons. — Author: John F. MacArthur Jr.

#51. If he had uttered the word «come» she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, «There is no hope,» she would have known the finality of despair. — Author: Ford Madox Ford

#52. I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word. — Author: Shah Rukh Khan

#53. Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion. — Author: Honore De Balzac

#54. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He’ll have his say one day if he wants it. He’ll have the last word. He has time to defend himself. — Author: Linda Evangelista

#55. To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn’t dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger. — Author: Miguel Angel Ruiz

#56. This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it. — Author: Jazz Feylynn

#57. There’s not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah… There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you’ve found a hundred and one. — Author: Nancy Horan

#58. Son, don’t mind what’s missing. Count allthat’s free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time — count time. — Author: Nikki Grimes

#59. I hope for an America where neither «fundamentalist» nor «humanist» will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls. — Author: Edward Kennedy

#60. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language…Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme. — Author: Mary Louise Pratt

#61. We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak. — Author: Alberto Villoldo

#62. Savory … that’s a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that’ the best. — Author: Ray Bradbury

#63. It’s an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language. — Author: Billy Collins

#64. Light was first Through the Lord’s word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation! — Author: Caedmon

#65. No holy place existed without us then,
no woodland, no dance, no sound.
Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.
I prayed one word: I want.
Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time. — Author: Sappho

#66. The word «miss» is so wistful. As is the word «wistful,» for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that «iss» sound. Which also sounds like if. — Author: Joan Wickersham

#67. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn’t trust a gentleman’s word. — Author: John Steinbeck

#68. Coward is the most misused word in our society. — Author: Doug Stanhope

#69. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK — Author: Elie Jerome

#70. Not one word,» Kel warned. «Tobe and I have reached an understanding.»
Neal’s lips twitched. «Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. — Author: Tamora Pierce

#71. PUBLISHER’S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action. — Author: Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo

#72. And by the power of a word, I begin my life again. — Author: Paul Eluard

#73. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character … By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue. — Author: George W. Bush

#74. Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.’ Such words were futile. — Author: Catherine Cookson

#75. Pathetic, huh?» He learned that word
from me.
«Yeah. It’s like the opposite of a fish,
right? — Author: Hannah Moskowitz

#76. More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. — Author: Paul D. Boyer

#77. The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history. — Author: Mark Twain

#78. I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you’re reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I’ve ever written, and I hope it’s the first book you’ve ever read. Don’t make a habit of it. — Author: Stephen Colbert

#79. I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — Author: George Sand

#80. I don’t like the word ‘urban’ because I think it’s a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don’t think it’s a word that necessarily classes music. — Author: Taio Cruz

#81. Trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not, — Author: Ellen Hopkins

#82. You can’t say the secret word! — Author: Alex Riley

#83. I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. — Author: Mark Shepard

#84. The word «art» does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
To dwell is to garden. — Author: Martin Heidegger

#85. Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States. — Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

#86. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. — Author: Howard Thurman

#87. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships. — Author: Johnny Hunt

#88. How is it that a kiss can say so much?

Saying I love you is huge, but to kiss someone who has told you that means everything. A kiss speaks the truth, and I know. I know in his kisses, that he means every single word. — Author: Heather Gunter

#89. Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn’t it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, «devil»?8 — Author: Peter J. Leithart

#90. I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope — I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God. — Author: Kelly Clarkson

#91. Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men. — Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#92. Many churches have molded their programs around the community — not the Word of God. — Author: Billy Graham

#93. I’m trying to not follow fashion. I don’t even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years. — Author: Robbie Williams

#94. Word on the streets of Chicago in 1963 was that if Chuck Nicoletti got a contract with your name on it, you were already dead— you just didn’t know it yet. — Author: Richard Belzer And David Wayne

#95. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us. — Author: Eugene H. Peterson

#96. I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue. — Author: Will Smith

#97. American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God. — Author: Paul Washer

#98. Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you. — Author: Pythagoras

#99. Love. People threw that word around like carzy. — Author: Nick Burd

#100. The best advice on writing I’ve ever received was from William Zinsser: ‘Be grateful for every word you can cut.’ — Author: Christopher Buckley

I had a dream about you last night… and found out that friends are a label we love to use, but usually it’s just a nice word for «acquaintance. — Marshall Ramsay

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and ‘feminine’ artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. — Oscar Wilde

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don’t understand. Never mind. — Peter S. Beagle

They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it. The voice on my answering machine is still John’s. The fact that it was his in the first place was arbitrary, having to do with who was around on the day the answering machine last needed programming, but if I needed to retape it now I would do so with a sense of betrayal. One day when I was talking on the telephone in his office I mindlessly turned the pages of the dictionary that he had always left open on the table by the desk. When I realized what I had done I was stricken: what word had he last looked up, what had he been thinking? By turning the pages had I lost the message? Or had the message been lost before I touched the dictionary? Had I refused to hear the message? I — Joan Didion

The whole set of stylizations that are known as «camp» (a word that I was hearing then for the first time) was, in 1926, self-explanatory. Women moved and gesticulated in this way. Homosexuals wished for obvious reasons to copy them. The strange thing about «camp» is that it has been fossilized. The mannerisms have never changed. If I were now to see a woman sitting with her knees clamped together, one hand on her hip and the other lightly touching her back hair, I should think, «Either she scored her last social triumph in 1926 or it is a man in drag. — Quentin Crisp

The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory. — Edgar S. Brightman

But perhaps the best words of wisdom come from Anne Gilberto of East Boston, who’s been married to Steve for more than 50 years. In that time, they’ve reached a form of compromise that not only gets things done but also lets them both take satisfaction in having had their own way. The secret to their long marriage, say Anne, is this:
‘I always give him the last word. I tell him what to do, and he says, ‘Yes, ma’am. — Christine Schultz

Her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word last. — Jane Austen

Rebellion? I don’t like hearing such a word from you,» Ivan said with feeling. «One cannot live by rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me straight out, I call on you
answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears
would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? Tell me the truth.»
«No, I would not agree,» Alyosha said softly.
«And can you admit the idea that the people for whom you are building would agree to accept their happiness on the unjustified blood of a tortured child, and having accepted it, to remain forever happy?»
«No, I cannot admit it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Light in the Labyrinth is a beautifully written book, a gem. I savoured every word; words written with so much ‘colour’. Even though I know the story of Queen Anne Boleyn, Dunn’s perspective on her last days is missing in so many other books of the genre. Dunn gives grace to the history and an honest, and very compassionate look at Anne’s last days. I cried in the end, shedding tears for the young Kate, Anne and her little Bess. I have not yet read a Tudor book that has moved me to tears, as this wonderful journey does. Dunn’s dedication and research shines through in this unforgettable book, a book not just for young readers, but also for all.» — Lara Salzano, avid Tudor reader. — Wendy J. Dunn

thus it is that egoists have always the last word; having posited at the start that their resolution is unshakeable, the more susceptible the feeling to which one appeals in them to make them abandon their resolution, the more reprehensible they find, not themselves who resist that appeal, but those who put them under the necessity of resisting it, so that their own harshness may be carried to the utmost degree of cruelty without having any effect in their eyes but to aggravate the culpability of the person who is so indelicate as to be hurt, to be in the right, and to cause them thus treacherously the pain of acting against their natural instinct of pity. — Marcel Proust

I thought I was growing wings
it was a cocoon.
I thought, now is the time to step
into the fire
it was deep water.
Eschatology is a word I learned
as a child: the study of Last Things;
facing my mirror — no longer young,
the news — always of death,
the dogs — rising from sleep and clamoring
and howling, howling …
(«Seeing For a Moment») — Denise Levertov

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word. — Peter Earle

Stilletos of a frozen stillicide [ … ] In the lovely line heading this comment the reader should note the last word. My dictionary defines it as ‘a succession of drops falling from the eaves, eavesdrop, cavesdrop.’ I remember having encountered it for the first time in a poem by Thomas Hardy. The bright frost has eternalized the bright eavesdrop. — Vladimir Nabokov

The three of us do not go out very often as the three of us. I think Daniel is perfect for Jed, which is the highest compliment I can give. But my friendship isn’t with him, and Jed understands that. When we hit the road, we hit it together alone.
We get to the bridge, out undestined destination. Even though there’s no sign, no arrow, Jed turns at the last minute and parks us in a verge right before the bridge leaves the ground.
The trunk pops open, and Jed runs round back to retrieve a bag of oranges and a sweatshirt that fits me better.
Shall we make like lizards and leap? he asks.
I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.
Would you stroll me down the promenade instead? I ask back.
Most certainly, my splendid.
There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people tho don’t see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy. — David Levithan

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well — too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it — I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup. — Charlotte Bronte

I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word. — Dallas Willard

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. ‘Nothing is my last word about anything,’ said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions — whenever asked — cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination. — Susan Sontag

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now? — Desmond Tutu

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

I’ve always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much—because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you’re sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room. — Leslie Jamison

It isn’t that I like it and I don’t like it — that’s too simple. Or, if you will, it isn’t «both yes and no.» It’s «this but also that.» I’d love to settle in on a strong feeling or reaction. But, having seen whatever I see, my mind keeps on going and I see something else. It’s that I quickly see the limitations of whatever I say or whatever judgment I make about anything. There’s a wonderful remark of Henry James: «Nothing is my last word on anything.» There’s always more to be said, more to be felt. — Susan Sontag

Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. — Hugh B. Brown

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively. — Christine Feehan

Their highest concept of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. That was their first word and their last. It constituted their whole lexicon of ideas. Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought, while his sister talked. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped. — Jack London

Because she is dead!» She screamed the last word so loudly it burned in her throat. «Because she is dead, and I am left with my worthless life! — Sarah J. Maas

There is in fact no good reason al-Ghazali and his ilk should have the last word in defining Islam. Muslims around the world cannot go on claiming that «true» Islam has somehow been «hijacked» by a group of extremists. Instead they must acknowledge that inducements to violence lie at the root of their own most sacred texts, and take responsibility for actively redefining their faith. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

What was this blight that had come down over the people she loved? Did she see it in stark relief because she had been away from it? Had it percolated gradually through the years until now? Had it always been under her nose for her to see if she had only looked? No, not the last. What turned ordinary men into screaming dirt at the top of their voices, what made her kind of people harden and say «nigger» when the word had never crossed their lips before? — Harper Lee

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. — Carson McCullers

Do other dads not end their phone calls with existential despair? Because that’s what my dad does. Papa ends most of his calls with me the way you might close a conversation with someone you want to menace. «Anyway,» he’ll say, «I’ll be here. Staring into the abyss.» Or, when I have given him good news, «The talented will rule and the rest will perish in the sea of mediocrity.» Or, when I have given him bad news, «I am for for everything that happens to you, as everything is my fault.» He never ends with anything that couldn’t one day be construed as a tragic yet comic last word. — Scaachi Koul

Failing all else, their last resort will be: ‘This was good enough for our ancestors, and who are we to question their wisdom?’ Then they’ll settle back in their chairs, with an air of having said the lst word on the subject
as if it would be a major disaster for anyone to be caught being wiser than his ancestors! — Thomas More

Last word in lonesome is me. — Eddy Arnold

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off. — Henry David Thoreau

Really, awfully, terribly, I had a sudden attack of hiccups. I was staring at the Doctor, murderously angry with him. And hiccuping …
‘That’s it. I’m going down there. I’m offering myself to them instead. If you’re too much of a coward.’
The Doctor winced at that last word.
I hiccuped again.
‘Amy Pond,’ he said. ‘Try holding your breath.’
‘I will not hold my breath! This is important! Rory is having his mind vacuumed and we’re just standing here-‘
‘Hiccuping.’
‘Yes.’
We stood, glaring at each other. I hiccuped again.
‘Seriously,’ said the Doctor, patiently. ‘I know it’s not the best time, but really, try holding your breath.’
I stood there. Hiccuping and scowling at him. — James Goss

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word. — Andre Gide

How to repulse a demon (an old problem)? The demons, especially if they are demons of language (and what else could they be?) are fought by language. Hence I can hope to exorcise the demonic word which is breathed into my ears (by myself) if I substitute for it (if I have the gifts of language for doing so) another, calmer word (I yield to euphemism). Thus: I imagined I had escaped from the crisis at last, when behold
favored by a long car trip
a flood of language sweeps me away, I keep tormenting myself with the thought, desire, regret, and rage of the other; and I add to these wounds the discouragement of having to acknowledge that I am falling back, relapsing; but the French vocabulary is a veritable pharmacopoeia (poison on one side, antidote on the other): no, this is not a relapse, only a last soubresaut, a final convulsion of the previous demon. — Roland Barthes

So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way
listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos … .Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that’s real love. — Taylor Swift

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word — all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities — it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination. That is the point in human destinies to which all the glories and toils of men have at last led them. They would do well to pause and ponder upon their new responsibilities. Death stands at attention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en masse; ready, if called on, to pulverise, without hope of repair, what is left of civilisation. He awaits only the word of command. He awaits it from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now — for one occasion only — his Master. — Winston S. Churchill

And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Miss Brobity’s Being, young man, was deeply imbued with homage to Mind. She revered Mind, when launched, or, as I say, precipitated, on an extensive knowledge of the world. When I made my proposal, she did me the honour to be so overshadowed with a species of Awe, as to be able to articulate only the two words, «O Thou!» meaning myself. Her limpid blue eyes were fixed upon me, her semi-transparent hands were clasped together, pallor overspread her aquiline features, and, though encouraged to proceed, she never did proceed a word further. I disposed of the parallel establishment by private contract, and we became as nearly one as could be expected under the circumstances. But she never could, and she never did, find a phrase satisfactory to her perhaps-too-favourable estimate of my intellect. To the very last (feeble action of liver), she addressed me in the same unfinished terms. — Charles Dickens

Common sense doesn’t have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded. — Thomas Nagel

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have … they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word. — Lewis B. Smedes

Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things were whole, we felt confident that our words could express them. But little by little these things have broken apart, shattered, collapsed into chaos. And yet our words have remained the same. Hence, every time we try to speak of what we see, we speak falsely, distorting the very thing we are trying to represent. [ … ] Consider a word that refers to a thing- » umbrella», for example. [ … ] Not only is an umbrella a thing, it is a thing that performs a function. [ … ] What happens when a thing no longer performs its function? [ … ] the umbrella ceases to be an umbrella. It has changed into something else. The word, however, has remained the same. Therefore it can no longer express the thing. — Paul Auster

Without a doubt, the next few minutes would be the most hellishly exciting in my life. Grinding pain and killer fatigue waited just beyond the word, «Partez.» But I tried to ignore those prespects, and concentrate on the priceless feelings that also awaited. I thought about the perfect strokes we would take, and about the merciless surge of power we would unleash in the last 500 meters. — Brad Alan Lewis

I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles,» he thought, with an odd smile. «Hm … yes, all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most … . But I am talking too much. It’s because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing. I’ve learned to chatter this last month, lying for days together in my den thinking … of Jack the Giant — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Another last-minute, good-deed job,» Royce grumbled as he stuffed
supplies into his saddlebag.
«True,» Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, «but
this is at least a paying job.»
«You should have told him the real reason we saved him from Trumbul
because we wouldn’t see the hundred tenents otherwise.»
«That was your reason. Besides, how often do we get to do royal contracts?
If word gets around, we’ll be able to command top salaries.»
«If word gets around, we’ll be hanged. — Michael J. Sullivan

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us — the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. — Hannah Arendt

In the Old Language, she hissed, «If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.»
That last word was drawn out, until its syllable was lost in more growling.
Dead silence.
Until Doc Jane said dryly, «Annnnd this is why they say the female of the species is more dangerous than the male. — J.R. Ward

I hate posterity — it’s so fond of having the last word. — Saki

Boy, you don’t know when the hell to shut up!» Lance sat back miserably, staring up at Asher, every bit of piss and vinegar gone. «Listen up, Lance. This is the last time I’ll talk nice to you before I make your face look like a copy of mine. You’re not filing anything. Not against me. Not against her. If you ever dare to bother Savannah again, I will find Serena Shepherd, and I will pay whatever it takes to bring her back to Danvers and have her corroborate every word Savannah Carmichael says about you. So unless you want to be known as the county rapist and be taking it up the ass in lockup for the next decade, you will leave this alone and you will never go near Savannah Carmichael again. You hear me, you goddamned rapist?» «I hear you. I hear,» Lance mumbled, slumping back in his chair, utterly defeated. — Katy Regnery

The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics — mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species. — William Hazlitt

The river was nowhere and everywhere, for he could not decide which of a hundred green lagoons offered the most pleasant and least speedy path to the Gulf. So he traveled them all, and so did we. He divided and rejoined, he twisted and turned, he meandered in awesome jungles, he all but ran in circles, he dallied with lovely groves, he got lost and was glad of it, and so were we. For the last word in procrastination, go travel with a river reluctant to lose his freedom in the sea. — Aldo Leopold

I guess I’m hoping the weapons will make me feel better, grant me some kind of fucking control, especially if I sense the dullness inside me get too heavy and thick, warning me that something is again approaching, creeping slowly towards my room, no figment of my imagination either but as tangible as you and I, never ceasing to scratch, waiting, perhaps for a word or an order or some other kind of sign to at last initiate this violent and by now inevitable confrontation — always as full of wrath as I am full of fear. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Or ugsome, a late medieval word meaning loathsome or disgusting? It has lasted half a millennium in English, was a common synonym for horrid until well into the last century, and can still be found tucked away forgotten at the back of most unabridged dictionaries. Isn’t it a shame to let it slip away? — Bill Bryson

He knows I have a soft spot for RLS and not just because he was sick or because we have the same initials but because there’s something impossibly romantic about him and because before he started writing Treasure Island he first drew a map of an unknown island and because he believed in invisible places and was one of the last writers to know what the word adventure means. I could give you a hundred reasons why RLS is The Man. Look in his The Art of Writing (Book 683, Chatto & Windus, London) where he says that no living people have had the influence on him as strong for good as Hamlet or Rosalind. Or when he says his greatest friend is D’Artagnan from The Three Musketeers (Book 5, Regent Classics, London). RLS said: ‘When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge, I take them like opium.’ And when you read Treasure Island you feel you are casting off. That’s the thing. You are casting off and leaving behind the ordinary dullness of the world. — Niall Williams

Since Deacon Hollingshead’s arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. «Corruption» is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose. — Robert Charles Wilson

The physician had asked the patient to read aloud a paragraph from the statutes of Trinity College, Dublin. ‘It shall be in the power of the College to examine or not examine every Licentiate, previous to his admission to a fellowship, as they shall think fit.’ What the patient actually read was: ‘An the bee-what in the tee-mother of the trothodoodoo, to majoram or that emidrate, eni eni krastei, mestreit to ketra totombreidei, to ra from treido a that kekritest.’ Marvellous! Philip said to himself as he copied down the last word. What style! What majestic beauty! The richness and sonority of the opening phrase! ‘An the bee-what in the tee-mother of the trothodoodoo.’ He repeated it to himself. ‘I shall print it on the title page of my next novel,’ he wrote in his notebook. — Aldous Huxley

The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was ‘Repent.’ He said that to five out of seven. — Vance Havner

That is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. — Evelyn Waugh

My last name has the word ‘big’ in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I’ll just be Big. — Mike Birbiglia

We talk of strong personalities, and they are strong, until the not-every-day when we see them as we might see one woman alone in a desert, and know that all the strength we thought we knew was only courage, only her lone song echoing among the stones; and then at last when we have understood this and made up our minds to hear the song and admire its courage and its sweetness, we wait for the next note and it does not come. The last word, with its pure tone, echoes and fades and is gone, and we realize — only then — that we do not know what it was, that we have been too intent on the melody to hear even one word. We go then to find the singer, thinking she will be standing where we last saw her. There are only bones and sand and a few faded rags. — Gene Wolfe

He didn’t go down to dinner at all that night, didn’t eat, didn’t drink, simply thought of his wife, trying to decide what to do with her. He’d wanted her to suffer, and she’d suffered. He’d wanted her to pay for her deceits, and she’d saved his life. He’d wanted to torment her with the knowledge that she would never see him again and had instead created his own private hell. He wanted her to come to him again, giving herself to him as she had that night before her attempted escape, and he wanted to hear words she would never speak. He’d even started lying to himself as he lay sleepless in his bed, reliving each moment of their last night together, telling himself it was real, that she’d meant every word. He was going mad. — Elizabeth Elliott

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days. — David Levithan

Give fools the first and women the last word. — George Horace Lorimer

But you’re not going to let a woman have the last word.

Но ты же не собираешься оставить за женщиной последнее слово.

It is always difficult to have last words over the grave of a friend.

Всегда трудно говорить последнее слово над гробом друга.

You always have to have the last word, Angela.

За тобой последнее слово, Энджела.

You always have to have the last word.

Свое последнее слово.

Theon, as director, you have the last word.

Теон, за тобой последнее слово, как за главным.

I finally have the last word with her, and with you.

Наконец, я могу сказать последнее слово ей и вам.

Now you watch — he cannot bear not to have the last word.

Теперь смотри — он не сможет выдержать, чтобы не сказать последнее слово.

Or having the last word every conversation?

Или сказать последнее слово?

If you have last words, speak them now.

Если хочешь сказать последнее слово, говори.

I always let her have the last word.

Я всегда позволяю ей сказать последнее слово.

Men always have the last word.

За мужчиной всегда последнее слово.

~ Watson always had the last word.

— За Ватсоном всегда последнее слово.

Now I can always have the last word.

Теперь последнее слово всегда будет за мной.

You always have the last word?

Всегда последнее слово за тобой.

You always had the last word.

Твое слово всегда было последним.

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Atheism is the last word of theism.
Votes: 4

Heinrich Heine

Avoid sarcasm. Don’t insist on the last word.
Votes: 4

Ford Frick

No one has the last word other than God.
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Rob Bell

I’m never satisfied unless I get the last word.
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Alan Dershowitz

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Votes: 4

Mason Cooley

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Resist the need to be ‘right’ all the time or to always have the last word.
Votes: 4

Joyce Meyer

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
Votes: 4

J. L. Austin

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.
Votes: 4

Shah Rukh Khan

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
Votes: 4

Christian Lous Lange

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.’
Votes: 4

Steven Wright

It’s a pretty sure thing that the player’s bat is what speaks loudest when it’s contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
Votes: 4

Brooks Robinson

Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing — from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.
Votes: 4

John Casey

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader’s mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
Votes: 4

F. L. Lucas

Every last word is contagious,
Votes: 3

Jericho Brown

Love one another (His last words)
Votes: 3

George Harrison

Now comes the mystery! (last words)
Votes: 3

Henry Ward Beecher

The law must have the last word.
Votes: 3

Jacques Chirac

Atheism is the last word of theism
Votes: 3

Heinrich Heine

Give fools the first and women the last word.
Votes: 3

George Horace Lorimer

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
Votes: 3

George Pell

You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Votes: 3

Max Beerbohm

May your first word be adventure and last word love.
Votes: 3

Bruce Feiler

Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.
Votes: 3

Hugh B. Brown

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
Votes: 3

Henry James

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
Votes: 3

Robert A. Heinlein

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.
Votes: 3

Joyce Meyer

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
Votes: 3

Therese of Lisieux

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
Votes: 3

Ansel Adams

Hey,» he said. «It’s someday.» He said the last word in Greek.
Votes: 3

Ann Brashares

I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
Votes: 3

Dallas Willard

We’re blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
Votes: 3

Wynton Marsalis

I hate posterity — it’s so fond of having the last word.
Votes: 3

Hector Hugh Munro

We’ll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words…
Votes: 3

Roman Abramovich

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.
Votes: 3

Vladimir Nabokov

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: ‘A truck!’
Votes: 3

Emo Philips

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
Votes: 3

Victor Hugo

Can you still have any famous last words if you’re somebody nobody knows?
Votes: 3

Ryan Adams

Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.
Votes: 3

Cassandra Clare

«It can’t happen here» is number one on the list of famous last words.
Votes: 3

David Crosby

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
Votes: 3

Ashleigh Brilliant

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
Votes: 3

Jean Dubuffet

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
Votes: 3

Laurell K. Hamilton

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we’re judged by our last word.
Votes: 3

Tom Selleck

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that’s the answer.
Votes: 3

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
Votes: 3

Cornel West

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
Votes: 3

Erica Jong

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Votes: 3

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I don’t mind my wife having to last word. In fact I’m delighted when she reaches it.
Votes: 3

Walter Matthau

You can’t argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.
Votes: 3

Jennifer Donnelly

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
Votes: 3

Kofi Annan

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
Votes: 3

Richard Paul Evans

And to turn it into rap wasn’t too difficult besides just rhymin’ the last words of each line.
Votes: 3

Slick Rick

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
Votes: 3

William Lyon Phelps

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it?
Votes: 3

Aldo Leopold

As exits go, that’s a good one.» It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.
Votes: 3

Charlaine Harris

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
Votes: 3

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.
Votes: 3

Sarada Devi

Messieurs, c’est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot.» (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
Votes: 3

Louis Pasteur

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?’ Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.
Votes: 3

J. K. Rowling

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
Votes: 3

Alan Colmes

Reported as Oscar Wilde’s last words on his death bed… This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
Votes: 3

Carlos Fuentes

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
Votes: 3

Peter Medawar

Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.
Votes: 3

Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Votes: 3

Joseph Conrad

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
Votes: 3

Philip Kitcher

I can edit into infinity. It’s such a joy. I’d probably edit until the last word. Until there’s only one word left.
Votes: 3

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
Votes: 3

John Newton

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
Votes: 3

Evelyn Waugh

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.
Votes: 3

Albert Camus

Money, of course, is never just money. It’s always something else, and it’s always something more, and it always has the last word.
Votes: 3

Paul Auster

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
Votes: 3

Jack London

My mother’s last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.
Votes: 3

Cheryl Strayed

There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.
Votes: 3

David Paul Kirkpatrick

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace…Peace will be the last word of history.
Votes: 3

Pope John Paul II

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.
Votes: 3

Christine Feehan

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
Votes: 3

H. Rider Haggard

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
Votes: 3

Edward Abbey

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
Votes: 3

Marcel Duchamp

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.
Votes: 3

Gloria Naylor

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words ‘off’ at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
Votes: 3

George Clooney

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
Votes: 3

Andre Gide

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
Votes: 3

Ambeth R. Ocampo

He raised his brows. «You’re drunk.» «Am not!» He gave me a bland look. «A drunk’s famous last words before they fall flat on their face.
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J. Lynn

In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions…. Peace is still possible…
Votes: 3

Roger Etchegaray

Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: ‘What about those reviews then?»I don’t read them.»Don’t read them? You wrote them didn’t you?»
Votes: 3

Antony Sher

Let’s keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don’t let the haters have the last word.
Votes: 3

Shane Claiborne

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.
Votes: 3

Joan Didion

I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.
Votes: 3

Rick Riordan

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can’t win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.
Votes: 3

Roger Ailes

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
Votes: 3

Sarah Dessen

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
Votes: 3

Peter O’Toole

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
Votes: 3

Gilbert Ryle

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He’ll have his say one day if he wants it. He’ll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
Votes: 3

Linda Evangelista

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanityedit one more time!
Votes: 3

C.K. Webb

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don’t hear from me often, remember that you’re in my thoughts.
Votes: 3

Paul Auster

Well «I do» are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I’ve heard is a good place to begin.
Votes: 3

Andrew Peterson

I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
Votes: 3

Adolf Hitler

Man’s inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
Votes: 3

Alexander Berkman

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
Votes: 3

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
Votes: 3

Arthur Conan Doyle

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.
Votes: 3

Garrison Keillor

If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, ‘Sammy Davis suite, please.’ That’s, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.
Votes: 3

Charles Nelson Reilly

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Votes: 3

Sri Aurobindo

I think my novel, ‘Walden Two,’ has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
Votes: 3

B. F. Skinner

The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was ‘Repent.’ He said that to five out of seven.
Votes: 3

Vance Havner

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.
Votes: 3

Louis Pasteur

It is finished’ will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. ‘It is finished’ is a cry of victory.
Votes: 3

Stanley Hauerwas

And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn’t think nudity is the last word in fashion.
Votes: 3

Suzanne Collins

A good story or a book is all about it’s power to hold it’s readers still till the very last word of it’s climax — complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!
Votes: 3

Mehek Bassi

Common sense doesn’t have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
Votes: 3

Thomas Nagel

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
Votes: 3

Desmond Tutu

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader’s mind, so invested are they in the story.
Votes: 3

Jeff Vandermeer

I wonder how she’ll make up her mind.» «Oh, that I do know.» I can just catch Gale’s last words through the layer of fur. «Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without.
Votes: 3

Suzanne Collins

When the day shall come that we do part,» he said softly, and turned to look at me, «if my last words are not ‘I love you’-ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time.
Votes: 3

Diana Gabaldon

It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.
Votes: 3

Robin Olds

Despite the Great Chain of Being’s traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow ‘aimed’ at humans, or that humans are ‘evolution’s last word’.
Votes: 3

Richard Dawkins

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.
Votes: 3

Joseph Joubert

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.
Votes: 3

Henry David Thoreau

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
Votes: 3

Arthur Schopenhauer

Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn’t just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.
Votes: 3

Eric Drooker

Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
Votes: 3

Barbara Kruger

Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.
Votes: 3

Marcus Samuelsson

She didn’t say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn’t hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
Votes: 3

Kami Garcia

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
Votes: 3

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann’s irony, but only a part — a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we’re led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.
Votes: 3

Philip Kitcher

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.
Votes: 3

Neale Donald Walsch

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.
Votes: 3

J. L. Austin

There is an ancient script that says, ‘He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.’ But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
Votes: 3

Jim Rohn

So much of a novelist’s writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.
Votes: 3

Graham Greene

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader’s mind. It has, in fact, the last word.»
Votes: 3

F. L. Lucas

On the eighth day, the forty-year-old hobo said to Billy: This ain’t bad. I can be comfortable anywhere.You can? said Billy.On the ninth day the hobo died. So it goes. His last words were: You think this is bad? This ain’t bad.
Votes: 3

Kurt Vonnegut

Every man at time of Death,
Would fain set forth some saying that may live
After his death and better humankind;
For death gives life’s last word a power to live,
And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
Votes: 3

Alfred Lord Tennyson

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It’s strange.
Votes: 3

Haruki Murakami

So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way— listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos….Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that’s real love.
Votes: 3

Taylor Swift

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.
Votes: 3

Isak Dinesen

The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.
Votes: 3

Edgar S. Brightman

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Votes: 3

Titus Lucretius Carus

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?
Votes: 3

John Buchan

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. ‘Nothing is my last word about anything,’ said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions — whenever asked — cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.
Votes: 3

Susan Sontag

Never’ is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.
Votes: 2

Martin Van Creveld

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
Votes: 2

Rabindranath Tagore

The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Votes: 2

Billy Graham

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
Votes: 2

Robert Reich

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census,’ and people fall asleep.
Votes: 2

Aaron Sorkin

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don’t even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.
Votes: 2

Dhani Jones

The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor.’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing about drugs.’
Votes: 2

Roy Blount, Jr.

Last word in lonesome is me.
Votes: 0

Eddy Arnold

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.
Votes: 0

Richard B. Garnett

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.
Votes: 0

David Levithan

T’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
Votes: 0

Robert Browning

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
Votes: 0

Ben Elton

He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last.
Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
Votes: 0

Tommy Lasorda

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
Votes: 0

Hugo Black

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
Votes: 0

Ralph Keyes

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.
Votes: 0

Pipilotti Rist

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.
Votes: 0

Roscoe Conkling

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and ‘feminine’ artists since Fragonard.
Votes: 0

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn’t change one word. The word they didn’t change was on page 87.
Votes: 0

Steve Martin

The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.
Votes: 0

Peter Kreeft

If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.
Votes: 0

Karise Eden

New is a word for fools in towns who think
Style upon style in dress and thought at last
Must get somewhere.
Votes: 0

Robert Frost

The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.
Votes: 0

Priya Ardis

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last’ Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)
Votes: 0

Diana Gabaldon

A useful word previously unknown to me: ‘ergophobia’, meaning ‘fear or hatred of work’. At last I can define myself in one word.
Votes: 0

Kenneth Tynan

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone’s life. Even if you know it won’t last forever.
Votes: 0

Jean-Claude Izzo

I thought ‘Twinkies’ was just a word for ‘cookies,’ not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever.
Votes: 0

Tove Lo

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.
Votes: 0

Gail Carriger

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection,
the word blossoms.
Votes: 0

Joseph Joubert

The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing about drugs’.
Votes: 0

Roy Blount, Jr.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Votes: 0

Henrik Ibsen

Power is America’s last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money — and much easier to talk about sex — than it is to talk about power.
Votes: 0

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
Votes: 0

Sri Aurobindo

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.That word is love.»(Sophocles)by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford,from the last page of «Sophie’s Salvation
Votes: 0

Janet Aylmer

Obstreperous, ‘huh,— said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.— “That is irrefragable,— I told him solemnly.
Votes: 0

Patricia Briggs