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"A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away."
"A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility."
"That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last."
"This isn’t the first time I’ve faced death, and I don’t intend for it to be the last,” I said, repeating the same words he’d told me before fighting in that fateful duel. “I’ve chosen to live a dangerous life, but it’s who I am, and that wouldn’t change even if we’d never met."
"The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~Bones"
"If these were my last moments on earth, I’d spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he’d do the same"."
"A vibrator can last all night, too, vampire! - Denise"
"Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore."
"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!"
"Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species."
"The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect."
"The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last."
"If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing."
"Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories."
"Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die."
"I know so many last words. But I will never know hers."
"Most loves don't last. But some do."
"Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else."
"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse."
"When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone."
