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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

May you live to be a hundred years old, and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

Oscar Wilde

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Robert Frost

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Although the last, not least.

William Shakespeare

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Alfred North Whitehead

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.

John Ruskin

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.

Ronald Reagan

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Chinese Proverb

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Chinese Proverb

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

George F. Burns

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

It is often the last key on the ring which opens the door.

German Proverb

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

Elvis Presley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Richard J. Daley

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Woody Allen

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Publilius Syrus

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Alfred A. Montapert

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the last of earth! I am content.

John Quincy Adams

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

If there has been a focus, though, it's been trying to be involved and give to those charitable groups that affect our employees personally and probably our communities a little more. Cancer's been a big one because it affects just about every family, and we've had some employees pass away in the last few years from cancer. Heart disease is another big issue that affects most families.

Steve Peterson

We're doing a lot better than last year. It's real tough competition.

Ryan Lucas

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

O. A. Battista

The Cubans were upset with the incident that happened last night, and they want to make sure it doesn't happen again.

John Blundell

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Samuel Johnson

He's looked like that the last two days in practice.

Steve Alford

The last fish I caught was a 61/2-pounder that I caught 15 minutes before I had to weigh in.

Don Demott

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

It was a battle for 40 minutes, back and forth, the crowd was into it. We were into it. It came down to the last shot. But that was last year; this is this year. We can't go back to last year.

Lindsay Bowen

We know it will be hard match and we know how they will play against us, but we showed last year what can happen.

John Jeffrey

He was an unbelievable human being. He is the last of the old Austrian ski instructors; it is the absolute end of an era.

Warren Miller

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Philip Mote

The thing last year did for us is prove that we can win this thing. We can compete with anybody in Ohio and we totally believe that. We're very confident going in.

Keith Snoddy

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Peter Ustinov

It is important that we go for a win on the last stage as this will give us plenty of confidence going into the European season.

Steffen Radochla

I definitely think we're a better team than last year. I don't think we're a playoff team yet, but we are an improved team.

Allyson Wolff

Billy really gave us a spark of the bench. He has really found a grove the last three games and has come off the bench and give us what we need. Hopefully he can continue to do that.

Shea Scarbrough

It's always that hot. We were supposed to get air last year, but we'll lose our home-court advantage with that.

Tom Mcdonald

Books last a really long time if you take care of them.

Lauren Evans

I'm glad that last putt is in and that back nine is over.

Pat Hurst

Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.

William Ralph Inge

These guys are loving this because it's their last go-around. They love being part of this surprise. They earned it.

Rick Comer

I've learned so much from him. Last year, he got win No. 400 against me. I helped him get [No.] 200.

Sean O'neill

Absolutely amazing. To come back from a shoulder injury from last year where he couldn't swim, it was amazing.

Dylan Evans

Eventually, last spring, the $500,000 and $300,000 were withdrawn because the funding package was not complete.

Cassandra Wilson

This game was so much better for us. Last time it was kind of embarrassing, but the girls played well tonight, and they never quit.

Nicole Vetter

We can't leave our guards out to hang. Last time, we depended on them too much to guard them.

Kristen Kovesdy

For the last couple of years, we've had a lot of belly button-revealing looks. Now we're going to see a more fitted silhouette, and more belting.

Wendy Liebmann

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Ralph Nader

Sam was a wonderful man. The last time I saw him he brought me a box of candy for Valentine's Day.

Sandy Farmer

We're not looking at it that way. We looked at it that way last year and we lost.

Chris Raso

DeLay has been a lightning rod for people for the last three or four years.

Gary Keith

I was here the last time around with the Coliseum, so I'm not real optimistic about the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Pat Bowlen

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

The last three years we've been eliminated from the playoffs on the last drive of the game. We've been close the last three years. We have to find out what it takes to get us through that barrier.

Mark Reeve

She did some work that will last.

George Garrett

We expect a greater sense of responsibility ... on the part of the GOS troops and their allies than they have exhibited in the last four days.

Baba Gana Kingibe

He had better control last year. All of his walks come in bunches.

Sean Linville

This is our last chance. You cannot recreate cultures.

Carel Van Schaik

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Natalie Clifford Barney

We were encouraged by our comeback against Carroll (Argos trailed by 17 at half), but we're even more encouraged by our win last Saturday at Northern.

Antonio Veloso

Vendor deliveries improved a little from last month and all of it indicates that the business climate is favorable for Western New York.

William Ellis

I got started last Thursday and I've got over half my corn crop in the ground.

Milton Smith

I think there's probably a real good chance something will happen there. He did well there last year.

Barry Axelrod

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.

Virginia Woolf

He's the last guy who should be lecturing John Kerry about how to defend America and keep the faith with those who wear the uniform.

Terry Mcauliffe

Going into the year, our goal was to beat what we did last year. We won 14 features last season. We're sitting at 19 now and we have two chances to get 20.

Mark Dobmeier

I'm sure they're going to come after us, just like we did last year.

Kevin Bettencourt

I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

This is a very pragmatic approach which was completely absent for the last four years.

Scott Snyder

But what I like about spring snow is they don't last long.

Mike Sharp

She had a good year last year. If we could have supported her at all with some runs, especially earlier in the year, she would have had a much better record.

Mike Harper

We're very much a team and that's how we won the state championship last year. If these guys improve at all we're going to be in good shape.

Rich Bruneau

This is our last chance to head off a potential disaster. We don't want there to be any excuses. This is no time for procrastination.

Kira Swaim

There has probably been more resume deception in the last 10 years than I would dare imagine. But I don't think it's going to change.

Peter Felix

The food is good, and my boys are enjoying it, ... Basically we didn't come to it last year and we figured we'd come out and see what's going on.

Randy Miller

This year, it's a different team. We're definitely better than the last time we played there.

Dustin Villepigue

I was one of the last ones to go.

John Fisher

He talked about that last summer. I'll believe it when it happens. If it happens, I'll let everyone know.

Tito Horford

The problem was, the earlier vaccines didn't cause long-lasting immunity, ... Frequent boosting was required.

Paul Offit

That's a good thing, ... And if we're settling for field goals, we might not have won the last two, especially the Washington game. It was big our offense came through.

Jason Elam

He's probably the most interesting musician I've met in the last 10 years. You can write anything for him, and he can play it.

Stanley Clarke

The last time we were (in the Olympics), we got kicked in the can by Canada.

Natalie Darwitz

It was not our year. It happens. It was Prosser's day. We kept fighting right up until the last play. There's no disgrace in that.

Butch Goncharoff

There's not too many people that have been actually able to beat him the last two years or so.

Lleyton Hewitt

We don't know anything about Arkansas and Miami because they haven't played yet, and Ole Miss played last weekend.

Bill Walton

The landscape looks a bit changed after Morgan Stanley's downgrading on Japan last week.

Susumu Abe

Any further fragmentation of an Indonesian state...would be the last thing that Australia wants.

John Moore

We want to win it this year. You have to win the first game, though. The morning games are very, very odd games. You can't predict what is going to happen. You never know what your kids will do. We were in a fog during that 10:30 game [against Evanston last year].

Dave Weber

There was a little added pressure after last year's mishap. I just wanted to get it around.

Lauryn Williams

They still have bits of her. They've got hair and blood samples. I'm going to try and get the last bits of her back as soon as this is over.

Steve Kurtz

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

I know that the last campaign involved extraordinary amounts of money, ... I have no intention of trying to match that.

Peter Berg

We wanted to try keeping Sturgis off balance as much as possible. We knew they were shooting the ball really well the last couple of games.

Tim Buddenhagen

What we're doing is nothing more than what we've been doing for the last 20 years.

Harvey Jewett

I just hope our fans come out to see us. The fact that I'm going to be playing my last game soon has affected me a lot. Especially after the 'CI.' I can't tell you how much it would mean to win this regional.

Shanté Collins

Matt had gotten them out all game. We didn't make the plays behind him in the last inning. He's a senior, and we knew he'd have the composure to get through it.

Barry Hightower

I would probably say we served well over 4,000 families last year.

Andrea Park

He said the waters coming into the basement its going down the stairwells and all the windows have blown out that' the last thing I heard from him.

Mary Baker

We got beat by a better team. One that won conference last year and may be on the way to repeat.

Luis Sayavedra

That will take care of the folks who wait until the last minute.

Carl Walton

We've had three shutouts in the last four games, so Dan's (Morse, Harwood goalkeeper) been playing great.

Dave Morse

It has been a major decision for me and not one that I have taken lightly, nor have I taken it in the last few days.

Nasser Hussain

Clearly a last resort.

Mark Schneider

The last time I played for South Africa was in July so I've had itchy feet to play for my country.

Jennifer Wilson

The last time I pitched was a week ago Wednesday, so it's been 10 days or so.

John Barber

We need to find a way to win them coming down the stretch the last few holes. We need to get some momentum in the matches.

Meg Mallon

They could not get the ball in the basket in the last five minutes and we were able to capitalize.

Jeff Lebo

We assembled a great group of investors for our seed round last year, and now we've built on that with a powerful and diverse group for our first equity round.

Jonathan Weber

Although fuel costs were up sharply from last year, the increase was dampened to a large degree by our ongoing fuel hedging program.

Donald Carty

Last week we gave up 42 points. This week we gave up zero. I guess we played better.

Dontez Sanders

We went about 10 or 12 miles the last time. Before that, the most he's done is about four.

Carla Kelly

It's the last thing I can do for her.

Cindi Measles

We had a lot to contend with last year after being moved off the turnpike. But we learned a lot.

Al Cohen

Today, we got three in the last hour. Now there's three families in New Orleans who will get their loved ones back.

David Senn

I think it helps that I have been there. I won't have the jitters I had last year.

Jesse Williams

We want to use the end of last season as motivation for this one.

John Runion

I am proud of the way we fought back - no doubt about it. We hit the ball well enough to have 13, 14 hits. They just weren't finding the holes at the time until we got a little something going in the last inning.

Charlie Smythers

Casual dining over the last 10 years has taken off.

Carol Dover

That's pretty good. If we can take care of business at home, and win those last two road games we have, we should be in pretty good shape.

Gerald Cox

Probably, until the last six or seven years, you could say the reverse was true.

Milt Travis

He is very strong in the air. He is leaps and bounds from where he was last year.

Barry Gorman

This time it was much more intense. Last year, the contestants were kind of 'us versus Gordon' right up until the end - this was brutally competitive right from the beginning.

Arthur Smith

Everybody on the team was involved last year. There are a lot of people who are still very hungry on this team.

Vince Catanzaro

We decided that either the third time was the charm, or at the very least, the last time either of us was going through it.

David Watson

For the last 15 years, we've worked with the Chamber of Commerce. We're not doing anything different than in the past; we've just formalized it.

Wes Savage

Last year, we went down to the final lap of the final race. I just don't see how [the system] can get any better than that.

Benny Parsons

How you feel about changing the process largely depends on how you came out in the last redistricting cycle and how you will come out in the next one.

Tim Storey

We've had a great turnout. We're very pleased. It's bigger than last year.

Gina Turner

I won't say you can get rich at it, but last year was a pretty good money year for me.

Mike Forrester

[The Braves] came ready to play, and at the position we won last time our boy just had a bad day.

Jim Cook

I figured I'd better come see. It may be the last time.

Bill Killion

Like I told our guys - this has nothing to do with last year.

Bill Cowher

I asked several officers this, but of course no one could tell me. I grieved that I couldn't comfort him in his last moments.

Cathy Clark

We don't know whether this group is involved. So far we only know that the car which was used in the attack had been stolen last month.

Manzoor Mughal

The last five or six games, we have to win those.

Rene Villalva

As a filmmaker, the last thing you want to do is place kids in emotional or physical jeopardy, ... Especially for me, coming from a place of really loving those kids.

Miranda July

We added over 85,000 cases to the backlog last year. This year, we will add over 100,000 cases to the backlog.

John Doll

That's up 16 percent from last week.

Ray Wilson

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Jay Freese

They've improved from the last time that we played them. They swung the bat and hit the ball well tonight.

Carl Fuller

They did a tremendous job last week. We showed last week that we can go into a hostile environment and win.

Mike Tota

We're not the last person with our hand up at the auto auctions. They even bought a car that I couldn't sell at my lot for 100 days.

Michael Kozak

This is it. And we're just trying to get the last of our stuff out of here.

David Loo

I'd say our turnout is comparable to last year's. Maybe between 2,200 and 2,500.

Manal Fakhoury

We're going to have things that talk about Englewood, that talk about the history and where we've been the last 100 years.

Shelly Stont

They re-enact the last gig they did in Iowa, February 3rd, 1959.

Bob Morales

Last year was the bounce-back year and this year is the consolidation year.

Douglas Mcwilliams

The coaches told me I was the last defensive player they'd ever put on the floor. Now they are comfortable with me. I guess it's way better than it was a few months ago.

Shawn Taggart

I wish I could have held it together a little better in the last three laps, but it was a great Olympic experience.

Catherine Raney

If it's dried out in the beginning, obviously I want to go first. But if it looks like it's going to dry in the end, I'm definitely going to go last.

Helio Castroneves

The West's Last Chance.

Tony Kornheiser

We didn't have Mike until the last three meets last year because of an injury, so it was good to have him back.

Marty Klein

The last two games we played them we had a lead and just didn't finish. This was a must-win for us.

Terri Keown

When the last time you threw a baseball you were feeling a sharp pain in your shoulder.

Jake Peavy

I don't have to tell this team what a big win this was. We knew this was a must win for us. We got blown out 13-1 against Atlantic last night, and this team responded. They came out with a defiant attitude.

Tommy Hickox

We took the air out of the ball a little bit in the last few minutes.

Joe James

We learned a few lessons from last year, and everything is going smoothly this year.

Tom Page

There were a couple of weeks there over the last six that Anthony outsold James.

Neil Schwartz

The last week or two of the season can make or break it.

Scott Hoyt

We're seeing stronger bookings and therefore have had less of an impact on our schedule than we saw last year.

Todd Burke

There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months.

Chris Gorog

AP has been fighting for this information since the fall of 2004. We're grateful to have a decision at last that keeping prisoner identities secret is against the public policy and the law of this country.

Dave Tomlin

That's 85 more kindergartners than last year.

Karen Strakbein

Last season, people were getting hurt. We're ending this season at a high.

Britani Pittullo

Studies on some of areas began last year, but will continue this year.

Armando Zamora

Matt Stephens has played his best golf the last four rounds. He's really improved his game.

Brandon Burks

This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids or my house clean, but I have memories that will last forever.

Renee Fitzgerald

I only got my rent check last week. It's not enough time to find a place.

Mary Smith

I think we're just as good as we were last year, if not better.

Mel Wilkins

Mentally what happened last year helps. You're not as nervous. You don't have to press as much because you know what it's about. That's just how it is.

John Gramuglia

The reality is that we have less funding to work with this year than last. We did not give anyone the amount they asked for.

Sergio Sanchez

We got a check last week from a doctor in Oakland. He said he hoped that it would help in some way. It's kind of amazing.

Jack Burke

Our agents along with the San Antonio Police Department arrested two people that we believe without a doubt committed and facilitated the escape of the seven inmates on December the 13 of last year.

Larry Todd

I want to be in the game. When the last minute is on the clock I want to be in the game.

Lane Larive

It's going to be even bigger and better than last year.

Peter Spalthoff

Our numbers are up from last year and that will create a lof of competition at positions. That is, as far as I'm concerned, a good thing.

Randy Nelson

It has been an enormous struggle over the last six months.

Burton Grebin

I heard the expectations about this staff coming into the season. But I feel like this staff is just as good as it was last year.

Bryan Augenstein

I've lost only about 20 bars over the last six years.

Melanie Payne

It feels so good to come here and win. It's my last time and it's just a really good feeling.

Isaiah Fox

Germany has become a different country in the last seven years.

Joschka Fischer

I've known since last year I was going to run. It was just a matter of who was going to be running with me.

Chad Caldwell

Last year Florida grew by about 400,000 people, around 2.5% to 3%.

Matthew Mcnee