It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“...there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And… — Nichole Nordeman Copy Share Image
It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like… — Moby Copy Share Image
“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with pleasure, or the expectation of it; if she went away… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Depending on what you do and how you do what you do, I wouldn't recommend for everyone to allow themselves to be… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Life's sunniest hours are not without The shadow of some lingering doubt-- Amid its brightest joys will steal Spectres of evil yet… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it… — Zachary Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will. — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I'm not alone in my own head, that there's a part of someone lingering there, someone who chides me… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but… — John Cheever Copy Share Image