People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Paul Hindemith

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Denis Diderot

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.
Betty Hutton

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.
Peter Asher

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony Trollope

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
Jackson Browne

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
Bum Phillips

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Shirley Hazzard

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.
Pras Michel

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.
Tom Glazer

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
Bruce Springsteen