..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years. - George Orwell
Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them. - David Nicholls
I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months. - Mary Tyler Moore
No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night. - Marty Rubin
Things don't always end up the way we planned but it doesn't mean the plan wasn't magical while it lasted. - Kealohilani
The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters. - Cordwainer Smith
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. - Cathy Ladman