Lasts Quotes

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

No blessing lasts forever.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.