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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word. — Dallas Willard

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word. — Ashleigh Brilliant

For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing. — Roberto Bolano

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

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair. — William Lyon Phelps

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top. — Dhani Jones

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul. — Henrik Ibsen

So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass. — Tom Robbins

I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word. — Alan Dershowitz

As exits go, that's a good one. It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire. — Charlaine Harris

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. — Jean-Claude Izzo

The law must have the last word. — Jacques Chirac

Tyranny is the desire to have the last word. — Marty Rubin

This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word. — Odysseus Elytis

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that. — Gillian Flynn

Pay attention to fate ... It will always have the last word. — Lynn Cullen

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

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything. — Terry McDonell

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached. — Sarada Devi

The only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said. — Erica Jong

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

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

Because she is dead!" She screamed the last word so loudly it burned in her throat. "Because she is dead, and I am left with my worthless life! — Sarah J. Maas

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition. — Harold Holzer

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

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

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. — Ford Frick

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word. — Saki

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. — Ralph Keyes

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

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. — Peter Medawar

Lightwoods," Magnus said. "They always have to have the last word. — Cassandra Clare

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. — Christian Lous Lange

The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end. — Rebecca Solnit

No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You never have known when to shut your hole, have ya, Minho? Always gotta have the bloody last word. — James Dashner

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

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. — Victor Hugo

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

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. — Mason Cooley

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology? — Richelle E. Goodrich

You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word. — Anthony Marra

Books that represent the last word on a topic are important. Books that represent one of the first words are even more important. — Jesper Roine

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

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

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures. — Pipilotti Rist

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

I've never liked the word team. I've always equated it with being picked last and getting nailed in the groin with a dodgeball. — Jordan Castillo Price

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

Atheism is the last word of theism. — Heinrich Heine

Revolting' was the last word I ever spoke as someone who'd never kissed a girl. — David Mitchell

Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand. — Sabaa Tahir

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis

The abuse does not define you or have the last word on your identity. Yes, it is part of your story, but not the end of your story. — Lindsey A. Holcomb

If the Almighty is the Almighty, the last word for each of us belongs to Him. — Elie Wiesel

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. — Steve Martin

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word. — Jennifer Donnelly

He was almost out, but being a man, he needed the last word. Slut. — C.D. Reiss

She bellowed the last word with such soul-deep hatred that he felt it like a punch to the gut. — Sarah J. Maas

It is always Time that has the last word. — Marty Rubin

Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. — Hugh B. Brown

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word. — Joyce Meyer

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

At last he stood staring at the old Reuben Golding he thought he knew so well, and neither had a word for the other that mattered. — Anne Rice

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Grace gets the last word. — Shane Claiborne

The best way to have the last word is to apologize. — Joyce Meyer

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

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

Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge. — Willa Cather

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. — Robert Browning

Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished? — Crystal Woods

Life, laughter, and pleasure will be the last word rather than death, crying, and pain. — Jerry L. Walls

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says. — Hugo Black

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million. — Tommy Lasorda

Never try to have the last word. You might get it. — Robert A. Heinlein

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes

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

Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. — Charles Dickens

That is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. — Evelyn Waugh

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. — Viktor E. Frankl

Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word. — Lynn Cullen

I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss. — Paula M. Hunter

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. — Billy Graham

Never say you know the last word about any human heart. — Henry James

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. — Ann Brashares

It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.

(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten). — Steven William Lawrie

The forest remembers that the last word can only be
the flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm — Aime Cesaire

Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word. — Eugene H. Peterson

The last word of love is ... goodbye. — Carroll Bryant

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer. — Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word. — Dejan Stojanovic

information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke's household, the last thing — Brenda Novak

The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word. — Hollisa Alewine

Your words crossed a threshold,
And entered the past,
Yet they have created,
A word that will last. — Somya Kedia

For better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. — Vladimir Nabokov