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Atheism is the last word of theism. -- Heinrich Heine
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. -- Ford Frick
No one has the last word other than God. -- Rob Bell
I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word. -- Alan Dershowitz
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. -- Mason Cooley
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word. -- Joyce Meyer
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. -- J. L. Austin
I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word. -- Shah Rukh Khan
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. -- Christian Lous Lange
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' -- Steven Wright
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word. -- Brooks Robinson
Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke. -- John Casey
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. -- F. L. Lucas
Every last word is contagious, -- Jericho Brown
Now comes the mystery! (last words) -- Henry Ward Beecher
Love one another (His last words) -- George Harrison
The law must have the last word. -- Jacques Chirac
Atheism is the last word of theism -- Heinrich Heine
Give fools the first and women the last word. -- George Horace Lorimer
Suffering and evil will not have the last word. -- George Pell
May your first word be adventure and last word love. -- Bruce Feiler
You will find my last words in the blue folder. -- Max Beerbohm
Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. -- Hugh B. Brown
Never say you know the last word about any human heart. -- Henry James
The best way to have the last word is to apologize. -- Joyce Meyer
Never try to have the last word. You might get it. -- Robert A. Heinlein
(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You! -- Therese of Lisieux
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. -- Wynton Marsalis
I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word. -- Dallas Willard
Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. -- Ann Brashares
My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize. -- Ansel Adams
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word. -- Hector Hugh Munro
for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!' -- Emo Philips
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. -- Victor Hugo
Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows? -- Ryan Adams
We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words... -- Roman Abramovich
Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. -- Jean Dubuffet
History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word. -- Tom Selleck
"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words. -- David Crosby
The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer. -- Floyd Red Crow Westerman
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said. -- Erica Jong
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word. -- Cornel West
I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it. -- Walter Matthau
You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word. -- Jennifer Donnelly
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life. -- Richard Paul Evans
And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line. -- Slick Rick
However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word. -- Kofi Annan
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? -- Aldo Leopold
As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire. -- Charlaine Harris
To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair. -- William Lyon Phelps
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.) -- Louis Pasteur
Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached. -- Sarada Devi
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. -- Carlos Fuentes
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. -- Peter Medawar
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. -- Oscar Wilde
The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him. -- J. K. Rowling
Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say. -- Alan Colmes
The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject. -- Philip Kitcher
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words) -- John Newton
I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. -- Evelyn Waugh
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm. -- Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. -- Joseph Conrad
My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love. -- Cheryl Strayed
Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word. -- Paul Auster
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it. -- Albert Camus
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat. -- Jack London
There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation. -- David Paul Kirkpatrick
There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively. -- Christine Feehan
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word. -- Marcel Duchamp
Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo. -- H. Rider Haggard
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. -- Edward Abbey
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history. -- Pope John Paul II
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up. -- George Clooney
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word. -- Andre Gide
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word. -- Gloria Naylor
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint. -- Ambeth R. Ocampo
In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible... -- Roger Etchegaray
He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face. -- J. Lynn
I can't believe Sadie's going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must've really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind. -- Rick Riordan
Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: 'What about those reviews then?''I don't read them.''Don't read them? You wrote them didn't you?" -- Antony Sher
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. -- Joan Didion
Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word. -- Shane Claiborne
Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified. -- Roger Ailes
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word. -- Sarah Dessen
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word. -- Gilbert Ryle
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I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself. -- Linda Evangelista
Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanityedit one more time! -- C.K. Webb
I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success. -- Adolf Hitler
Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin. -- Andrew Peterson
and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts. -- Paul Auster
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. -- Alexander Berkman
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word. -- Garrison Keillor
If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai. -- Charles Nelson Reilly
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed. -- B. F. Skinner
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. -- Sri Aurobindo
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven. -- Vance Havner
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded. -- Thomas Nagel
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word. -- Louis Pasteur
A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary! -- Mehek Bassi
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion. -- Suzanne Collins
It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story. -- Jeff Vandermeer
I wonder how she'll make up her mind." "Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without. -- Suzanne Collins
It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war. -- Robin Olds
When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time. -- Diana Gabaldon
It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now? -- Desmond Tutu
Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'. -- Richard Dawkins
I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off. -- Henry David Thoreau

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