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I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.' -- Billy Graham
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment. -- Eric Cantona
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. -- Rudolf Nureyev
And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end. -- Bobby Ray Inman
I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.' -- Billy Graham
Live each moment like it's the last moment in your life. -- Jim MacLaren
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. -- Publilius Syrus
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment. -- Jules Verne
A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking. -- Veronica Rossi
Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment. -- Wolfgang Puck
At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own. -- Dick Gregory
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters. -- Sarah Dessen
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die. -- Haruki Murakami
A person's last moments are an important thing. Yuou can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die. -- Haruki Murakami
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Spending one's last moments prostrated before the toilet is the supreme act of repentance. It allows one to relieve a heavy inner burden." -- Bauvard
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. -- E. O. Wilson
We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water. -- Michael Cunningham
I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax. -- Boris Yeltsin
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it. -- Phyllis Bottome
Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war. -- Emil Ludwig
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control. -- C. S. Lewis
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear. -- Edith Wharton
When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?' -- Richard Bach
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough. -- Lisa Gardner
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. -- Herodotus
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. -- Herodotus
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? -- Aldous Huxley
When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes. -- Swami Vivekananda
I am determined to enjoy each day to the fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation. -- Shelley Shepard Gray
The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial. -- John Henry Wigmore
Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming. -- Kidd Kraddick
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion. -- Arthur Helps
Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to. -- Shunryu Suzuki
I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done. -- Viktor E. Frankl
I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus. -- Andrew Flintoff
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved. -- Honore de Balzac
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity. -- Alberto Moravia
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. -- Benjamin Disraeli
To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment. -- Jeanette Winterson
[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth. -- A.C. Ping
However, it was not us who refused to freeze oil production; our Saudi partners changed their point of view at the last moment and decided to slow down the adoption of this decision. I would like to reiterate our position, it remains the same. -- Vladimir Putin
One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane. -- Stephen Kinzer
I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full canon of experiences, so every moment that you have here feels like the last moment in the world, because you've only had a handful of whatever those moments are. -- Eric Mabius
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own. -- Dick Gregory
I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life? -- Kate McCafferty
And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person. -- John Green
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity. -- Paul Auster
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity." -- Paul Auster
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -- Voltaire
I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen -- Kanye West
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. -- John Updike
I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer. -- Kelly Ripa
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Obviously, the closer you get to that moment, the more you start to realize 'this is the last year of my contract.' -- Johnathan Joseph
If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts. -- Julian Fellowes
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. -- Nicholas Sparks
What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts. -- Tracy Morgan
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. -- Bruce Springsteen
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed. -- Theresa May
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well. -- Mackenzie Crook
I always tried to design something new and of the moment. The idea was not to make something that would last, but to make something a woman could really wear when she needed it, like a good friend. -- Pauline Trigere
All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are. -- Louise L. Hay
A moment will pass, but a movement will last. -- Chamillionaire
Wait for the last possible moment to make a decision. -- Frank Partnoy
The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last -- Sabrina Carpenter
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last. -- Seneca the Younger
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem. -- Matsuo Basho
There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last. -- Jonathan Larson
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. -- D. H. Lawrence
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Be grateful for each moment, for we know not which will be our last. -- Mark Hewer
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven. -- Billy Graham
Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. -- David Eagleman
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Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. -- Minette Walters
My only request is that I draw my last dollar and my last breath at the exact same moment. -- Bobby Layne
Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. -- Ronda Rousey
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing. -- Billie Jean King
This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. -- Lech Walesa
I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath, -- Fiona Apple
In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did. -- Julie Murphy
How do you know when an apology is trueâ??when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment? -- Beth Kephart
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last. -- Robyn Hitchcock
I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls. -- Rob Lowe
Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all. -- Johnny Depp
What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again. -- Steve Hagen
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be. -- Julia Glass
Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you. -- Robert W. Service
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written? -- Mary Ritter Beard
Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either. -- Donna Tartt
I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place. -- Sarah Dessen
You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause. -- Drew Storen
There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet. -- Curt Mega
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better. -- Abby Sunderland
My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment. -- Jason Mraz
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. -- Michael Ondaatje
Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

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