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21 " If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet. "
― Lev Grossman
22 " Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings. And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring. And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything. "
23 " Kiss someone like it's the last one you give. "
24 " The proverb, " Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself, the fictional characters and the audience of his works. It's a trinity of perspectives; one of his struggle, another of the story character which he writes about and the last one of the reader's expectation of his protagonists. "
25 " no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been. "
― Brandon Thomas DiSabatino , 6 Weeks of White Castle /n rust
26 " This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, " What's that?" " Homework. "
27 " A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too. "
― Suzanne Palmieri , The Witch of Little Italy
28 " THE THREE BEES by Suzy KassemA young boy once askedA wealthy beekeeper:“What is the secret ofYour success?”The beekeeper simply smiledAnd replied:“To be successful,One has to be one of three bees:The queen bee,The hardest working bee,Or the bee that does not fit in.One success is inherited,And the next one is earned.While the last one isSelf-sought,Self-served,And happens on its ownTerms.”“And which bee are you?”Asked the boy.The beekeeper then wipedThe sweat from his headAnd said:“The last may seem the riskiest,But the glory of achievementIs the most rewarding.Freedom always comes at a high cost,But only when you areYour own boss,Can you trulyAfford it.” (Suzy Kassem Poetry) "
― , Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
29 " The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, " We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, " We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, " That was a lie. "
30 " And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he would be the last one ever and he would walk away now and it would only be a question of waiting for it all to end and hoping for better things in the next world. But that was silly, it was never too late. "
― Brian Moore , The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
31 " Loving me is like entering a dungeon with a lot of doors. I cannot guarantee you that you will get the key of every door you come across, I cannot tell you which door leads you where and what is behind it, I cannot assure you that you will head back out again the way you came in. All I can say is if you manage to open every right door and the last one too, I will make you one of my secrets forever, you will see and feel things that you have never come across, which will never let you leave again from the paradise that you have reached. "
― Akshay Vasu
32 " The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your won thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, " We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, " We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, " That was a lie. "
33 " Sometimes the smartest decision is the last one you want to make. "
34 " Just as the Netherlands was the last country to abolish slavery, they are still the last one opulently celebrating racism; the English had to force the Dutch to abolish slavery in the late 19th century and now the US and the UN are forcing them to stop celebrating bigotry in the 21st century "
― , Roses in the Rainbow
35 " Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect. "
― Dean Koontz , Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas, #6)
36 " Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp…” She looked at Zoe. “Which one was it?”That boy in Colorado,” Zoe said. “You turned him into a jackalope.”Ah, yes.” Artemis nodded, satisfied. “I enjoy making jackalopes… "
― Rick Riordan , The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
37 " You must forgive my Hunters if they do not welcome you," Artemis said. " It is very rare that we would have boys in this camp. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp…" She looked at Zoe. " Which one was it?" That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. " You turned him into a jackalope." Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. " I enjoy making jackalopes. "
38 " You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight." " Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping Portia Powers isn't in my best interests." " Then why are you still trying to talk me into seeing Melanie again?" " Hunger makes me weird." " You got rid of the last one in fourteen minutes. Well done. I'm rewarding you by letting you sit in on all the introductions from now on." She nearly choked on an ice cube. " What are you talking about?" " Exactly what I said. "
39 " We could’ve been a still photo, the kind from a booth at the mall where two dollars went in and a strip of three shots came out. Our image wasn’t the first shot, the one that was always frantic and unfocused. It wasn’t the second shot either--laughing and silly. No, this was the final image--the serious shot--where the couple realized they wanted a good picture to remember the moment by and couldn’t afford to screw the last one up. "
― Elizabeth Langston
40 " You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator. You're sure you'll pass Math 106 this time around. You're determined to actually join some clubs this year and not just sit around in your dorm eating spray cheese from a can and watching youtube videos about cats. "
― Patrick Rothfuss