Lingering Quotes

97 quotes by 94 authors

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a… — George Etherege
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship — Mohamed Nasheed
It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light, — Roland Gift
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick… — Lewis B. Smedes
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,… — Sara Teasdale
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a… — Aldous Huxley
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would eventually die a… — Sitting Bull
It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate… — Zachary Macaulay
If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's… — A. R. Rahman
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted… — Hoagy Carmichael
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe… — Lawrence Millman
Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association… — Samuel Johnson
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an… — Edward Forbes
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the… — Beatrix Campbell
But winter lingering chills the lap of May. — Oliver Goldsmith
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You… — John Dos Passos
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find… — John Cheever
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this… — John O'Donohue
Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if… — James Hunter
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn... — Philip Larkin

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