Lingering Quotes

97 quotes by 94 authors

Lingering labors come to naught. — Robert Southwell
There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love,… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness… — Sally Ride
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and… — Joseph Hall
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. — William Wordsworth
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. — Mary McCarthy
Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more… — John Everett Millais
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting… — Sandra Day O'Connor
...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, but also to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the… — Nichole Nordeman
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the… — Lord Byron
Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room.… — Aimee Carter
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains… — Merlin Stone
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments. — Diana Peterfreund
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and… — Catherine L. Albanese
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there… — Alexander MacLaren
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic… — H.G. Wells
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. — Carl Lewis
The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long… — Kenneth Grahame

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