#last

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time. ↗

— Jacques Santer

#artificial #certain #last #only #period

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#also #centuries #coffee #different #discovery

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. ↗

— Fred Savage

#angelou #best #creative #creative writing #emphasis

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#arrive #childhood #dream #feel #happy

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #branch #built #cost #dependent

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#compliment #done #everybody #great #had

Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#class #clearly #country #economic #entrepreneurial

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#collapse #communist #communist party #crisis #dramatic

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#believe #fifty #had #i #i am

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#been #beginning #coming #couple #energy