Lasts Quotes

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

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

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

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

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