Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.
I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.
There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.
No one has the last word other than God.
At least once per year, some group of scientists will become very excited and announce that: •The universe is even bigger than they thought! •There are even more subatomic particles than they thought! •Whatever they announced last year about global warming is wrong.
I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
Elections themselves do not necessarily lead to more corporate uncertainty - quite the reverse, stable democracies create a reliable environment. And elections have caused hardly any change in the basic economic framework in the last few decades.
I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.
I see black light (his last words)
Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
I never program anything, I decide at the last minute.
Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice. '
The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.
At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.
