The Last Word Quotes

“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Men are its philosophies. They lived, these Spaniards of the Golden Age; they felt and did; they did not think. Life was what they sought and found, life in its turmoil, its fervour and its variety. Passion was the seed that brought them forth and passion was the flower they bore. But passion alone cannot give rise to a great art. In the arts the Spaniards invented nothing. They did little in any of those they practised, but give a local colour to a virtuosity they borrowed from abroad. Their literature, as I have ventured to remark, was not of the highest rank; they were taught to paint by foreign masters, but, inapt pupils, gave birth to one painter only of the very first class; they owed their architecture to the Moors, the French and the Italians, and the works themselves produced were best when they departed least from their patterns. Their preeminence was great, but it lay in another direction: it was a preeminence of character. In this I think they have been surpassed by none and equalled only by the ancient Romans. It looks as though all the energy, all the originality, of this vigorous race had been disposed to one end and one end only, the creation of man. It is not in art that they excelled, they excelled in what is greater than art--in man. But it is thought that has the last word.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Don Fernando

“Oh, yes I can!
I’m not sorry!
The answer’s no!
I really don’t care!
And I do not always have to have the last word!
No—I don’t!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“I could have lost it, for all of you but I did not.”
― Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld

“When your back is against a wall, he'd reasoned, nothing can attack you from behind. You have a ruthless clarity: whatever you're up against, you'll see it coming.”
― Taylor Adams

“we can't pick and choose the pieces of who we are. And together all those pieces brought her this far.”
― Taylor Adams

“I don't understand what's wrong with me. My heart races sometimes and I feel like I'm afraid of something.
But there's nothing there.”
― Taylor Adams