Lingering Quotes
97 Lingering quotes by 88 unique authors
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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
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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
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn...
— Philip Larkin
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Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For…
— John Clare
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My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.…
— Jonathan Raban
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the…
— Yann Martel
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is…
— Unknown Author
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in…
— Marianne Williamson
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Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden…
— Lewis Carroll
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Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
— Mervyn Peake
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Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can…
— Neal A. Maxwell
Who Wrote These Lingering Quotes
88 authors contributed a total of 97 Lingering Quotes, led by these top contributors: