Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
“We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. — George Sand Copy Share Image
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
