The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My… — Hannah Flagg Gould Copy Share Image
“It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but… — Kidd Kraddick Copy Share Image
As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“ Your lingering presence erodes me. Heartbeat by heartbeat. Cell by aging cell. Washing away any sense of self I ever had.… — S.A. McAuley Copy Share Image
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm living -breathing proof that I can survive without you. You arent my everything and you most certainly arent my World. My… — Becca B Copy Share Image
... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Life is hard but it never loses its grace. If you aren't hard enough you cannot live but if you're not tender… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
“But trust me, it's best to face something head on, smash it, and move on with your life. Lingering and wondering, waiting… — jennifer ashley Copy Share Image
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them. — Philip Sidney 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
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often -… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Once, during an interview in front of my wife, I was asked, "Are you one of those actors who brings your character… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
When asked, "What do you think love is?" a lot of people speak of things that are painful or lingering. I wanted… — Seungri 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