Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do… — William Carey 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
“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
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American. — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens — Max Lucado 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake 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
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back.… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable… — Calvin Coolidge 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
Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving… — Johannes Kepler 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
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
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
Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. — Seneca the Younger 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
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
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on… — Ben Jonson 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
Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish… — Kofi Annan 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
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
