Languish Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if… — Mikhail Lermontov
When the body is sad, the heart languishes. — Albert Camus
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. — Samuel Daniel
Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as… — Kofi Annan
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with… — William Carey
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs… — Charles W. Chesnutt
Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. — Calvin Coolidge
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a… — William Henry Hudson
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will… — George Bernard Shaw
If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery,… — Michael Basman
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! — George Eliot
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish… — Buzz Aldrin
Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens — Max Lucado
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are… — Calvin Coolidge
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. — Seneca the Younger

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